The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

roke through the clouds with promise of a cl

s our Journal would say. John, when you set down the day's doings in your own jo

was pitched. "We can get a few dead limbs," he said, "but, wet a

d this they found it wise to do, not

Dick. "John, set down, 'Men in ve

y had met the disaster of the previous day. "Keep leading a horse up to a newspaper

firm, and, since there was no wind, a strong shove pushed her free without anyone getting overboard. They went on after that

ay for all of a week. At the end of that time the increasing shallowness of the river, the many sand bars and the nature of the discolored, rolling

heir field notes and maps and getting a good idea of the country by c

Missouri, and brought him back up to help them with the Sioux, where he had lived. Their bowman Cruzatte and several other Frenchmen had spent two ye

Plains. New animals now, before so very long. They reall

animals now," Rob began.

o antel

the Journal. "Two days later they got into game all right, for Drewyer kille

ay, but didn't get him. That was where he first wrote his name and date on a rock-he says the rock 'jucted out over the water.'

e his name twice-once up in Montana. But now, think how this new sort of country struck them. Patrick Gass say

inned Jesse, watching a big one on h

pelled him from the enlisted roll, for sleeping on sentinel post-which he had coming to him. But all the same, the Journal says that this party was healthier than any party

urpolous fat of one of those fish.' And all the time they are mentioning turkeys and geese and beaver-isn't it funny that all those creatures then lived in the same

. You'll see, they stuck around the mouth of the Platte quite a while, sending out word, to get the Indians in. The same day Drewyer and Colter got the elk the men brought in a 'Mr. Fairfong,' an interpreter, who

side of the river, about twenty-five miles above Omaha-not far from Fort Calhoun. There was no Omaha then. I can remember my own self when Omaha was young. I us

uffs was 'a verry proper place for a Tradeing Establishment and fortification.' Trust them to know the 'verry proper places'! Only, what I can't understand is the note that it is 'tw

y 21st. I figure three hundred and sixty-six miles to Kansas City, and two hundred and sixty-six miles to here, say six hundred and thirty-two miles for sixteen da

at Omaha, sir?" he a

out even a salute to the tribes from our bow piece. We've got to get up among the Sioux. Dorion has been talking

ing," said Jesse, wistfully. "

ies, here at Plattsmouth. Take comfort in the elk and beaver sign you can imagine in the sand, here at the

t getting him. Imagine yourself along with that summer fishing party along this little old river, and getting upward of eight hundred fish, seventy-nine pike, and four hundred and ninety cats; and again three hundred

re plugging along up the great river, threading

his eyes, "hide canoes, full of beaver bales, that float light! And t

and he reached for John's volume-"they let off the deserter, Moses Reed, very light. He only had to run the gan

ter he had found-with some cobalt and 'isonglass' in it-got very ill

, fingering once more the little rifle which always lay ne

es in and says he has killed a buffalo, in the plain ahead; and Lewis takes twelve men and has the buffalo brought to the boat at the next bend; so you just make no fuss over that first buffalo, and set it down in your elk-hide book. And that same day two elk swam across the river ahead of the boat. And that same evenin

se. "Well, anyway,