Following in their footsteps, the hardy American emigrant, trader,
adventurer, and home-seeker penetrated the wilderness, and, building
better than they knew, laid the foundations of populous and thriving
States. Peaceful farms and noble cities, towns and villages, thrilling
with the hum of modern industry and activity, are spread over the vast
spaces through which the explorers threaded their toilsome trail, amid
incredible privations and hardships, showing the way westward across the
boundless continent which is ours. Let the names of those two men long
be held in grateful honor by the American people!
INDEX
A
Alkali, natural deposits of, 60.
Antelope, first seen, 29, how hunted, 69.
Assiniboins, at war with Sioux, 49.
B
Beaver, hunted as game, 70,
Beaver Head, 143.
Big Dry River, 75.
Bismarck, N. D., 44.
Bitter Root Mountains, 147.
Black Cat, a Mandan chief, 342.
Boone, Daniel, 14.
Buffalo, first signs of, 16; hunt, 51; curious adventure with, 87;
extermination of, 338.
C
Caches, how built, 98.
Calumet bird, 43.
Camas, edible root, 179.
Cameahwait, a Shoshonee chief, 157.
Camp, first winter, 48; departure from, 57.
Candle-fish, 252.
Cannonball River, N. D-, 43.
Captain Cook, 3.
Captain Gray, 3.
Captain Vancouver, 3.
Carroll, Mont., 83.
Carver, Jonathan, 5.
Cascades of the Columbia, 262.
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