The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . er has now been absent for many years from thefrontier, and might naturally be presumed to have someanxiety, or some curiosity at least, to return to his friendsand his country; yet just at the moment when he iaapproaching the frontiers, he is tempted by a huntingscheme to give up those delightful prospects, and go backwithout the least reluctance to the solitude of the woods. Colter remained on the upper rivers until the spring of1807, but just where, or with what adventure, is not
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . er has now been absent for many years from thefrontier, and might naturally be presumed to have someanxiety, or some curiosity at least, to return to his friendsand his country; yet just at the moment when he iaapproaching the frontiers, he is tempted by a huntingscheme to give up those delightful prospects, and go backwithout the least reluctance to the solitude of the woods. Colter remained on the upper rivers until the spring of1807, but just where, or with what adventure, is not his first winter in the trapping business he decided toreturn to St. Louis. He set out in a log canoe entirelyalone and made his way in safety as far as to the mouthof the Platte Eiver. Here he met an expedition under thecelebrated trader, Manuel Lisa, bound for the headwatersof the Missouri to verify the glowing reports broughtback by Lewis and Clark concerning the wealth of beaverfur to be found in that region. To Lisa the accession ofsuch a recruit as John Colter, fresh from the very country. Cliff Near Tower Falls. JOHN COLTER. Vt to which he was going, was a matter of the very highestimportance. What inducements were offered we do notknow, but enough to decide the self-exiled hunter to giveup his return to civilization and to set his face for thethird time toward the wilderness. Nothing occurred on the voyage with which his name isconnected until the arrival of the expedition at the mouthof the Bighorn. Lisa had expected to find the Blackfeetnation very hostile, and it may have been a fear of thishostility that caused his unlucky decision to establish him-self in the country of their enemies, the Crows. But itseemed that a detachment of Lisas party met a band ofBlackfeet, either before or soon after the arrival at tliomouth of the Bighorn, from whom interesting and impor-tant information was obtained. Far from being hostile,these Indians evinced a pacific disposition,
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