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diff --git a/42925-h/42925-h.htm b/42925-h/42925-h.htm index a7d27ea..40193f4 100644 --- a/42925-h/42925-h.htm +++ b/42925-h/42925-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Conquest, by Eva Emery Dye</title> <style type="text/css"> @@ -219,26 +219,9 @@ td {padding-right: .5em; </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42925 ***</div> <h1 class="pg">The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Conquest, by Eva Emery Dye</h1> -<p>This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: The Conquest</p> -<p> The True Story of Lewis and Clark</p> -<p>Author: Eva Emery Dye</p> -<p>Release Date: June 12, 2013 [eBook #42925]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONQUEST***</p> <p> </p> -<h4 class="center">E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -315,7 +298,7 @@ portraits and fac-simile maps.</i></p> <p class="center">In box, $5.00 net; delivered, $5.36.</p> -<p class="center b12">A. C. McCLURG & CO., <span class="smcap">Chicago</span></p> +<p class="center b12">A. C. McCLURG & CO., <span class="smcap">Chicago</span></p> </div> </div> @@ -363,22 +346,22 @@ and Clark</i></p> </div> <p class="center p4"><i>Chicago</i><br /> -<i>A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY</i><br /> +<i>A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY</i><br /> <i>1902</i></p> </div> <p class="center p6 s08"> <span class="smcap">Copyright</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">A. C. McClurg & Co</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">A. C. McClurg & Co</span><br /> 1902</p> <p class="center s05">Entered at Stationers' Hall, London</p> <p class="center s08"><span class="smcap">Published Nov. 12, 1902</span></p> <hr class="l30 p6" /> -<p class="center s05">UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON<br /> -AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.</p> +<p class="center s05">UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON<br /> +AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.</p> <h2>NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT</h2> @@ -405,13 +388,13 @@ Library, and Mr. Pierre Chouteau, St. Louis; to the Historical Societies of Missouri, at St. Louis and Columbia; to Mrs. Laura Howie, for Montana manuscripts at Helena; to Miss Kate C. McBeth, the greatest living authority on -Nez Percé tradition; to the descendants of Dr. Saugrain, +Nez Percé tradition; to the descendants of Dr. Saugrain, and to the families and friends of Sergeants Pryor, Gass, Floyd, Ordway, and privates Bratton, Shannon, Drouillard, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; also to the Librarian of Congress for copies of Government Documents.</p> -<p class="left65">E. E. D.</p> +<p class="left65">E. E. D.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Oregon City, Oregon</span>,<br /> <span class="i1">September 1, 1902.</span></p> @@ -1291,13 +1274,13 @@ Quesne, blown up by the French when captured by the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> English. The mound, the moat, the angles and bastions yet remained, but overgrown with grass, and cattle grazed -where once an attempt had been made to plant mediæval +where once an attempt had been made to plant mediæval institutions on the sod of North America. As if born for battles, Clark studied the ground plans.</p> <p>"Two log gates swung on hinges here," explained the Colonel from Fort Pitt, "one opening on the water and -one on the land side with a mediæval drawbridge. Every +one on the land side with a mediæval drawbridge. Every night they hauled up the ponderous bridge, leaving only a dim dark pit down deep to the water."</p> @@ -1421,7 +1404,7 @@ famous first resolutions against the Stamp Act. From the lobby of the House of Burgesses, Thomas Jefferson, a student, looked that morning at the glowing orator and said in his heart, "He speaks as Homer wrote." It was -an alarm bell, a call to resistance. "Cæsar had his +an alarm bell, a call to resistance. "Cæsar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third"—how the staid, bewigged, beruffled old Burgesses rose in horror!—"and George the Third may @@ -1869,7 +1852,7 @@ Williamsburg."</p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> thanksgiving as Clark rode into Duke of Gloucester Street. Burgoyne had surrendered. Men were weeping -and shouting. In the <i>mêlée</i> he met Jefferson and proposed +and shouting. In the <i>mêlée</i> he met Jefferson and proposed to him a secret expedition. In the exhilaration of the moment Jefferson grasped his hand,—"Let us to the Governor."</p> @@ -2254,7 +2237,7 @@ innate to the Spanish race.</p> Leyba, was friendly even to excess. He extended his hand to Colonel Clark.</p> -<p>"I feel myself flattered by this visit of de Señor le +<p>"I feel myself flattered by this visit of de Señor le Colonel, and honoured, honoured. De fame of your achievement haf come to my ear and awakened in me emotions of de highest admiration. De best in my house @@ -2313,7 +2296,7 @@ servant, had peeped behind the door.</p> <p>Clark even began to think he would like to settle in Louisiana. And the Governor favoured his project.</p> -<p>"De finest land in de world, Señor, and we can make +<p>"De finest land in de world, Señor, and we can make it worth your while. You shall have de whole district of New Madrid. Commandants, bah! we are lacking de material. His Majesty, de King of Spain, will gladly @@ -2371,9 +2354,9 @@ advances were in goods and silver piastres, for which Clark gave scrip or a check on the agent of Virginia at New Orleans.</p> -<p>Gabriel Cerré in early youth moved to Kaskaskia, where +<p>Gabriel Cerré in early youth moved to Kaskaskia, where he became a leading merchant and fur trader. "I am bitterly -opposed to <i>les Américains</i>," he said. Then he met +opposed to <i>les Américains</i>," he said. Then he met <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span> Clark; that magician melted him into friendship, sympathy, and aid.</p> @@ -2651,7 +2634,7 @@ Americans do not hire Indians to fight their battles."</p> territory. Then the galley hove in sight and the flag waved above Vincennes.</p> -<p>"A convoy up de <i>rivière</i> on its way with goods, from +<p>"A convoy up de <i>rivière</i> on its way with goods, from le Detroit," whispered a Frenchman. Directly Clark dispatched his boatmen to capture the flotilla.</p> @@ -2740,7 +2723,7 @@ said the paroled Frenchmen.</p> <p>The people rejoiced when they heard of Hamilton's capture; they hated his tyranny, and, certain of Clark's onward progress, prepared a welcome reception for "<i>les -Américains</i>."</p> +Américains</i>."</p> <p>"See," said the mistress of a lodging house to Captain Lernoult. "See what viands I haf prepared for le @@ -2974,7 +2957,7 @@ his wine at the Government House. "Why need we fear? Are not our relation wit de Indian friendly? <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">44</a></span> Never haf been attack on San Luis, never will be. Be -seat, haf wine, tak' wine, Señor le Colonel."</p> +seat, haf wine, tak' wine, Señor le Colonel."</p> <p>"Pouf!" echoed the guests at the Governor's table. "Some trader angry because he lose de peltry stole in de @@ -3300,7 +3283,7 @@ us; we have struck your enemies."</p> <p>The bounty was paid; the scalps were counted and flung into a cellar under the Council House.</p> -<p>And De Peyster, really a good fellow, like André, a +<p>And De Peyster, really a good fellow, like André, a <i>bon vivant</i> and lover of books and music, went on with his cards, balls, and assemblies, little feeling the iron that goes to the making of nations.</p> @@ -3603,7 +3586,7 @@ dinner."</p> is here. I shall be ready to answer his slightest signal. Be sure I shall answer." He turned to go.</p> -<p>"Going? No, no, Señor Colonel, I cannot permit—" The +<p>"Going? No, no, Señor Colonel, I cannot permit—" The hands of Governor De Leyba shook still more. "I expect you to dine,—haf sent a hunter for ducks."</p> @@ -3634,7 +3617,7 @@ exhaustion.</p> <p>"The Chippewas! The Chippewas!"</p> <p>They had crossed the river and murdered the family of -François Bellhome.</p> +François Bellhome.</p> <p>"<i>Sacre Dieu! le Sauvage! la Tour! la Tour!</i>" cried the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">57</a></span> @@ -3786,7 +3769,7 @@ thought that diversion kept Clark from Detroit.</p> <p>After the terror was all over, long in the annals of the fireside, the French of St. Louis related the feats of -"<i>l'année du coup</i>."</p> +"<i>l'année du coup</i>."</p> <p>"Auguste Chouteau, he led te defence, he and he brother." @@ -4467,10 +4450,10 @@ want, followed from room to room.</p> <p>"The plate, Martin," with a wave of the hand Jefferson strode out from his beloved Monticello.</p> -<p>With Cæsar's help Martin pulled up the planks of the +<p>With Cæsar's help Martin pulled up the planks of the portico, and the last piece of silver went under the floor as a gleaming helmet hove in sight. Dropping the plank, -imprisoning poor Cæsar, Martin faced the intruder.</p> +imprisoning poor Cæsar, Martin faced the intruder.</p> <p>"Where is your master? Name the spot or I'll fire!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span></p> @@ -5100,7 +5083,7 @@ March of 1785.</p> <p>Fascinated by the rush of waves, fourteen-year-old William poled like a man. Could he dream what destruction -lay in their course? "<i>L'année des grandes eaux</i>," +lay in their course? "<i>L'année des grandes eaux</i>," 1785, is famous in the annals of the West as the year of great waters. The floods came down and drowned out old Ste. Genevieve and drove the inhabitants back to @@ -5471,7 +5454,7 @@ time. No lock on a barn door could save the horses, no precaution save the outlying emigrant from scalping or capture. Red banditti haunted the streams and forests, dragging away their screaming victims like ogres of -mediæval tragedy.</p> +mediæval tragedy.</p> <p>Clark grew sick and aged over it. "No commission, no money, no right to do anything for my suffering @@ -5631,7 +5614,7 @@ Pausing on the river bank opposite St. Louis he hallooed for an hour before any one heard him.</p> <p>"Dat some person on de oder shore," presently said -old René Kiercereaux, the chorister at the village church.</p> +old René Kiercereaux, the chorister at the village church.</p> <p>A canoe was sent over and brought back Boone. As if a man had dropped from the moon, French, Spanish, @@ -5653,7 +5636,7 @@ winters in western Missouri, hunting and trapping.</p> father. "You had better come out."</p> <p>"Eef your father, ze great Colonel Boone, will remove -to Louisiana," said Señor Zenon Trudeau, the +to Louisiana," said Señor Zenon Trudeau, the Lieutenant-Governor, "eef he will become a citizen of Spain, de King will appreciate de act and reward him handsomely."</p> @@ -5820,7 +5803,7 @@ fire."</p> <p>Always among the first in pursuit of marauding Indians, William Clark as a cadet had already crossed the Ohio with General Scott, "a youth of solid and promising -parts and as brave as Cæsar," said Dr. O'Fallon.</p> +parts and as brave as Cæsar," said Dr. O'Fallon.</p> <p>Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea, presented a memorial to Congress insisting upon the Ohio as the Indian boundary. @@ -6029,7 +6012,7 @@ posts that her fur traders had hung on to so vainly.</p> <p>Niagara, Michilimackinac, Detroit, keys to the Lakes, -<i>entrepôts</i> to all the fur trade of the Northwest, were lost +<i>entrepôts</i> to all the fur trade of the Northwest, were lost <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">105</a></span> to Britain for ever. It was hardest to give up Detroit,—it broke up their route and added many a weight to the @@ -6186,14 +6169,14 @@ town, and by placing two or three frigates within the Mississippi's mouth (to guard against Spanish succours) I would engage to subdue New Orleans, and the rest of Louisiana. If farther aided I would capture Pensacola; -and if Santa Fé and the rest of New Mexico were objects—I +and if Santa Fé and the rest of New Mexico were objects—I know their strength and every avenue leading to them, for conquest.—All the routes as well as the defenceless situation of those places are perfectly known to me and I possess draughts of all their defences, and estimates of the greatest force which could oppose me. If France will be hearty and secret in this business my success borders on certainty.—The -route from St. Louis to Santa Fé is easy, and the places +route from St. Louis to Santa Fé is easy, and the places not very distant.... To save Congress from a rupture with Spain on our account, we must first expatriate ourselves and become French citizens. This is our intention."</p> @@ -6208,7 +6191,7 @@ moment fighting all Europe, so frightfully had upblazed the tiny spark of liberty borne back by the soldiers of Rochambeau.</p> -<p>André Michaux was instructed to hasten to the Falls +<p>André Michaux was instructed to hasten to the Falls of the Ohio with this message to George Rogers Clark:</p> <p>"The French minister has filled out this blank commission @@ -7375,14 +7358,14 @@ some competent person to explore that region, by ascending the Missouri and crossing the Stony Mountains, and descending the nearest river to the Pacific. The sum of five thousand dollars was raised for that purpose, and -André Michaux, a French botanist, was engaged as scientist, +André Michaux, a French botanist, was engaged as scientist, but when about to start he was sent by the French minister on political business to Kentucky."</p> <p>Meriwether Lewis laughed. "I remember. I was then at Charlottesville on the recruiting service, and warmly solicited you to obtain for me the appointment to execute -that adventure. But Mr. André Michaux offering his +that adventure. But Mr. André Michaux offering his services, they were accepted."</p> <p>Both were silent for a time. Michaux had gone on @@ -7475,7 +7458,7 @@ Barton,—I will write to him to-day." hand penned the prosecution of his fortune.</p> <p>"I must ask the favour of you to prepare for him a note -of those lines of botany, zoölogy, or of Indian history +of those lines of botany, zoölogy, or of Indian history which you think most worthy of study or observation. He will be with you in Philadelphia in two or three weeks and will wait on you and receive thankfully on paper any communications @@ -7700,12 +7683,12 @@ this growing power it will be more useful to the policy and even to the commerce of France, than if I should attempt to keep it."</p> -<p>He turned to Barbé-Marbois, who had served as Secretary +<p>He turned to Barbé-Marbois, who had served as Secretary of the French Legation at Philadelphia during the whole war of the American Revolution.</p> <p>"We should not hesitate to make a sacrifice of that -which is about slipping from us," said Barbé-Marbois. +which is about slipping from us," said Barbé-Marbois. "War with England is inevitable; shall we be able to defend Louisiana? Can we restore fortifications that are in ruins? If, Citizen Consul, you, who have by one @@ -7718,7 +7701,7 @@ that will not admit that you yield to necessity."</p> <p>Far into the night they talked, so late that the ministers slept at St. Cloud.</p> -<p>At daybreak Napoleon summoned Barbé-Marbois. +<p>At daybreak Napoleon summoned Barbé-Marbois. "Read me the dispatches from London."</p> <p>"Sire," returned the Secretary, looking over the @@ -7751,14 +7734,14 @@ them overtures, without any subterfuge. Acquaint me, hour by hour, of your progress."</p> <p>"What will you pay for all Louisiana?" bluntly -asked Barbé-Marbois that day of the astonished Livingstone.</p> +asked Barbé-Marbois that day of the astonished Livingstone.</p> <p>"<i>All Louisiana!</i> New Orleans is all I ask for," answered Livingstone. So long had Talleyrand trifled and deceived, the American found himself distrustful of these French diplomatists.</p> -<p>"But I offer the province," said Barbé-Marbois.</p> +<p>"But I offer the province," said Barbé-Marbois.</p> <p>Surprised, doubtful, Livingstone listened. "I have not the necessary powers." @@ -7767,7 +7750,7 @@ not the necessary powers." <p>The next day Monroe arrived.</p> <p>"There must be haste or the English will be at New -Orleans," said Barbé-Marbois. "How much will you +Orleans," said Barbé-Marbois. "How much will you pay for the whole province?"</p> <p>"The English? Fifteen millions," answered the @@ -7787,7 +7770,7 @@ and customs perpetuate the friendship."</p> in English.</p> <p>"We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of -our lives!" exclaimed Livingstone, as he and Barbé-Marbois +our lives!" exclaimed Livingstone, as he and Barbé-Marbois and Monroe arose and shook hands across the document.</p> @@ -8531,13 +8514,13 @@ XVI. For more than two hundred years his people had been librarians, book-binders, and printers for the King. Litterateurs and authors were the Saugrains for six continuous generations, and out of their scientific and historical -publications came the bent of Dr. Antoine François +publications came the bent of Dr. Antoine François Saugrain of St. Louis. But when the Bastile was -stormed, Saugrain left France for ever. An <i>emigré</i>, a +stormed, Saugrain left France for ever. An <i>emigré</i>, a royalist, with others of the King's friends he came to the land that honoured Louis XVI.</p> -<p>Between the Rue de l'Église and the Rue des Granges, +<p>Between the Rue de l'Église and the Rue des Granges, at the extreme southwestern limit of the old village of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">159</a></span> St. Louis, stood Dr. Saugrain's modest residence of @@ -8816,7 +8799,7 @@ flickering emblem of their country's brief possession.</p> night the guard of honour watched, and the little log church of St. Louis was filled with worshippers. All the romance of Brittany and Normandy rose to memory. -René Kiercereau the singer led in ballads of La Belle +René Kiercereau the singer led in ballads of La Belle France, and the glories of fields where their fathers fought were rehearsed with swelling hearts. Not the real France but an ideal was in their hearts, the tradition @@ -8853,7 +8836,7 @@ San Loui' in 1764. He was a diplomat who met Indians and made alliances. He had seen the territory pass under Spain's flag, and in spite of that had made it more and more a place of Gallic refuge for his scattered countrymen. -He had welcomed Saugrain, Cerré, Gratiot, in +He had welcomed Saugrain, Cerré, Gratiot, in fact,—he and his brother Pierre remembered the day when there was no San Loui'.</p> @@ -9194,7 +9177,7 @@ journals, but not an Indian.</p> "De Kansas were plaintee brave people, but de Sac and de Sioux, dey drive 'em up de Kansas River."</p> -<p>Cæsar conquered Gaul, but the mercatores were there +<p>Cæsar conquered Gaul, but the mercatores were there before him. Lewis and Clark ascended the Missouri, but everywhere the adventurous Frenchmen had gone before them, peddlers of the prairie, out with Indian @@ -9392,7 +9375,7 @@ had thrown open his infantry uniform to catch the cooling gust down a silver rift in the shore.</p> -<p>"<i>Petite Rivière des Sioux.</i> Go to Des Moines country. +<p>"<i>Petite Rivière des Sioux.</i> Go to Des Moines country. Pass tro te Lake of te Spirit, full of islands. Lead to Dog Plain, Prairie du Chien, four days from te Omaha country. Des Sioux—"</p> @@ -9525,8 +9508,8 @@ Clark and Joseph Fields dashed away for a first shot.</p> the whole expedition paused a day for a grand hunt.</p> <p>"Te Yankton Sioux!" joyfully announced old Dorion, -as they neared the familiar chalk bluffs of "des rivière -Jaques, tat go almost to te Red Rivière of te Winnipeg." +as they neared the familiar chalk bluffs of "des rivière +Jaques, tat go almost to te Red Rivière of te Winnipeg." All over these streams old Dorion had trapped the beaver.</p> <p>With Sergeant Pryor and another, Dorion set out for @@ -9900,7 +9883,7 @@ could tell.</p> <p>And here now were Lewis and Clark, in the Autumn of 1804, among the fabled Mandans, and here before them was a Mr. Hugh McCracken, an Irishman, and -René Jussaume, a Frenchman, independent traders, who +René Jussaume, a Frenchman, independent traders, who for a dozen winters had drawn their goods on dog sleds over from the British fort on the Assiniboine to trade with the Mandans for buffalo robes and horses. Thirty @@ -10035,7 +10018,7 @@ robes of buffalo.</p> <p>In the frosty weather there came over the prairies from Fort Assiniboine seven Northwest traders, led by -François Antoine Larocque and Charles Mackenzie, with +François Antoine Larocque and Charles Mackenzie, with stores of merchandise to trade among the Mandans. They immediately waited upon Lewis and Clark.</p> @@ -10232,7 +10215,7 @@ upper Missouri.</p> <p>Three wide-eyed spectators sat ranged around the walls. These were the squaws of the interpreters, Madame -René Jussaume, and the two wives of Charboneau, +René Jussaume, and the two wives of Charboneau, Madame the old dame, and Sacajawea, the beautiful Indian captive stolen beyond the Rockies.</p> @@ -11700,7 +11683,7 @@ raids against the Shoshones, the Bannocks, and the Crows. Here stole back and forth the timid Shoshone to his annual hunt on the Yellowstone and the Snake River plains. Hither from time immemorial had the Flatheads and -Nez Percés resorted for their supplies of robes and meat. +Nez Percés resorted for their supplies of robes and meat. Even from the far Saskatchewan came the Piegans and Gros Ventres to this favoured and disputed spot.</p> @@ -12204,19 +12187,19 @@ of the Idaho Alps,—struggled into the Lolo trail used by the Indians for ages before any whites ever came into the country.</p> -<p>Over the Lolo trail went the Nez Percés to battle and to +<p>Over the Lolo trail went the Nez Percés to battle and to hunt buffalo in the Montana country. Down over this trail once came a war party and captured Wat-ku-ese, a -Nez Percé girl, and carried her away to the distant land +Nez Percé girl, and carried her away to the distant land of white men,—<i>so-yap-po</i>, "the crowned ones," she called them, because they wore hats.</p> -<p>Still ever Wat-ku-ese dreamed of her Nez Percé home +<p>Still ever Wat-ku-ese dreamed of her Nez Percé home and one day escaped with her infant on her back. Along the way white traders were kind to her. On and on, footsore and weary she journeyed alone. In the Flathead country her baby died and was buried there. One day -some Nez Percés came down over the Lolo trail bringing +some Nez Percés came down over the Lolo trail bringing home Wat-ku-ese, weak, sick, dying.</p> <p>She was with her people at their camas ground, Weippe, @@ -12224,7 +12207,7 @@ when Lewis and Clark came down over the Lolo trail.</p> <p>"Let us kill them," whispered the frightened Nez -Percés. +Percés. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">234</a></span></p> <p>Wat-ku-ese lay dying in her tent when she heard @@ -12232,7 +12215,7 @@ it. "White men, did you say? No, no, do not harm them. They are the crowned ones who were so good to me. Do not be afraid of them. Go near to them."</p> -<p>Cautiously the Nez Percés approached. The explorers +<p>Cautiously the Nez Percés approached. The explorers shook their hands. This was to the Indians a new form of greeting.</p> @@ -12250,7 +12233,7 @@ roots resulted in sickness, when the expedition might have been easily attacked but for those words of Wat-ku-ese, who now lay dead in her tent.</p> -<p>To this day the Nez Percés rehearse the story of Wat-ku-ese. +<p>To this day the Nez Percés rehearse the story of Wat-ku-ese. It was the beginning of a lifelong friendship with the whites, broken only when Chief Joseph fled over the Lolo trail. But even Chief Joseph found he must give @@ -12258,11 +12241,11 @@ up the vast areas over which he was wont to roam, and come under the laws of civilised life.</p> <p>As fast as their weakness permitted councils were -held, when the Captains told the Nez Percés of the Great +held, when the Captains told the Nez Percés of the Great Father at Washington, who had sent them to visit his children.</p> -<p>Twisted Hair, the Nez Percé Tewat, a great medicine +<p>Twisted Hair, the Nez Percé Tewat, a great medicine man, dreamer and wizard and wise one, drew on a white elkskin a chart of the rivers. Admiring redmen put their hands over their mouths in amazement.</p> @@ -12284,7 +12267,7 @@ was still living on the Columbia in the days of the Hudson's Bay Company.</p> <p>To save time and trouble, canoes were burnt out of logs. -Leaving their horses with the Nez Percés, on October 4 +Leaving their horses with the Nez Percés, on October 4 the explorers were glad to get into their boats with their baggage and float down the clear Kooskooske, into the yellow-green Snake, and on into the blue Columbia.</p> @@ -12312,7 +12295,7 @@ of friendship.</p> <p>The arrival at the Columbia was followed by days of councils, with gifts and speeches and smoking. -Two Nez Percé chiefs, Twisted Hair the Tewat +Two Nez Percé chiefs, Twisted Hair the Tewat and Tetoh, introduced the explorers from tribe to tribe, bearing on and on the good words of Wat-ku-ese: "They are crowned ones. Do not be afraid. Go near to them."</p> @@ -12377,7 +12360,7 @@ to pacify them. Not one would touch the pipe lit by the sun. Clark went out and sat on a rock and smoked until the boats arrived.</p> -<p>"Do not be afraid. Go to them," began the Nez Percé +<p>"Do not be afraid. Go to them," began the Nez Percé chiefs.</p> <p>"They are not men," hurriedly whispered the frightened @@ -13783,7 +13766,7 @@ thrown from the camp of the whites.</p> <p>"<i>Halo muck-a-muck</i>," answered the forlorn Indians. "Dried fish all gone. No deer. No elk. No antelope <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">266</a></span> -to the Nez Percé country." Hundreds were coming down +to the Nez Percé country." Hundreds were coming down for food at Wapato. "<i>Elip salmon chaco.</i>"</p> <p>"Until the salmon come!" That had been the cry of @@ -13803,7 +13786,7 @@ Cascade Indians came flocking down into the lower valley.</p> <p>"We must remain here until we can collect meat -enough to last us to the Nez Percé nation," said the Captains, +enough to last us to the Nez Percé nation," said the Captains, and so, running the gauntlet of starvation, it happened that Lewis and Clark camped for ten days near the base of Mt. Hood at the river Sandy. In order to collect @@ -13962,7 +13945,7 @@ every bedhead hung a war club and a Moorish scimitar of iron, thin and sharp, rude relic of Ko-na-pe's workshop.</p> <p>Having now dried sufficient meat to last to the Nez -Percés, Lewis and Clark set out for the Dalles, that +Percés, Lewis and Clark set out for the Dalles, that tragical valley, racked and battered, where the devils held their tourneys when the world was shaped by flood and flame.</p> @@ -14116,7 +14099,7 @@ men had known around their boyhood homes.</p> <p>And everywhere were horses.</p> <p>"More hor-r-ses between th' Gr-reat Falls av th' -Columby and th' Nez Percés than I iver saw in th' same +Columby and th' Nez Percés than I iver saw in th' same space uv countery in me loife before," said Patrick Gass. "They are not th' lar-r-gest soize but very good an' active."</p> @@ -14138,9 +14121,9 @@ they grew old, stiff, and blind, they went, so the Indians said, to Horse Heaven on the Des Chutes to die. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">273</a></span></p> -<p>Following the old Nez Percés trail, that became a +<p>Following the old Nez Percés trail, that became a stage road in the days of gold, and then a railroad, -Lewis and Clark came to the land of the Nez Percés,—Chopunnish.</p> +Lewis and Clark came to the land of the Nez Percés,—Chopunnish.</p> <p>Thirty-one years later the missionary Spalding planted an apple-tree where Lewis and Clark reached the Snake @@ -14163,7 +14146,7 @@ smoked and pondered on the journey of the white men.</p> land of the President. Sacajawea and the Shoshone boy interpreted until worn out, and then fell asleep. And ever within Black Eagle's village was heard the dull -"thud, thud, thud," of Nez Percé women pounding the +"thud, thud, thud," of Nez Percé women pounding the camas and the kouse, "with noise like a nail-factory," said Lewis. All night long their outdoor ovens were baking the bread of kouse, and the kettles of camas mush, @@ -14207,18 +14190,18 @@ to ratify this council, come and eat. All others stay away."</p> <p>The mush was done, the feast was served; a new dawn -had arisen on the Nez Percés.</p> +had arisen on the Nez Percés.</p> <p>Finding it impossible to cross the mountains, a camp was established at Kamiah Creek, on a part of the present -Nez Percé reservation in Idaho county, Idaho, where +Nez Percé reservation in Idaho county, Idaho, where for a month they studied this amiable and gentle people. Games were played and races run, Coalter outspeeding all. Frazer, who had been a fencing master in Rutland, back in Vermont, taught tricks, and the music of the fiddles delighted them.</p> -<p>Stout, portly, good-looking men were the Nez Percés, +<p>Stout, portly, good-looking men were the Nez Percés, and better dressed than most savages, in their whitened tunics and leggings of deerskin and buffalo, moccasins and robes and breastplates of otter, and bandeaus of fox-skins @@ -14228,7 +14211,7 @@ tight-fitting grass caps and long buckskin skirts whitened with clay.</p> <p>Upon the Missouri the eagle was domesticated. Here, -too, the Nez Percé had his wicker coop of young eaglets +too, the Nez Percé had his wicker coop of young eaglets to raise for their tail feathers. Any Rocky Mountain Indian would give a good horse for the black-and-white tail feather of a golden eagle. They fluttered from the @@ -14279,7 +14262,7 @@ of the eye a curse of the frontier.</p> were exhausted, and the last awl, needle, and skein of thread had gone. Off their shabby old United States uniforms the soldiers cut the last buttons to trade for -bread. But instead of trinkets the sensible Nez Percés +bread. But instead of trinkets the sensible Nez Percés desired knives, buttons, awls for making moccasins, blankets, kettles. Shields the gunsmith ingeniously <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">276</a></span> @@ -14369,7 +14352,7 @@ certain death.</p> on their heads, drawing their knives across their throats, and pointing far ahead.</p> -<p>Every year the Nez Percés followed the Lolo trail, +<p>Every year the Nez Percés followed the Lolo trail, stony and steep and ridgy with rocks and crossed with <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">278</a></span> fallen trees, into the Buffalo Illahee, the buffalo country @@ -14403,7 +14386,7 @@ mark on the Digger Indian's grave at the south. The Shoshone-Snakes, too, were immemorial and implacable enemies of both the Blackfeet and the Columbia tribes. They fought to the Dalles and Walla Walla and -up through the Nez Percés to Spokane. Their mad +up through the Nez Percés to Spokane. Their mad raiders threw up the dust of the Utah desert, and chased the lone Aztec to his last refuge in Arizona cliffs.</p> @@ -14426,7 +14409,7 @@ Falls of the Missouri and explore Marias River, Clark to come to the three forks and cross to the Yellowstone.</p> <p>With nine men and five Indians Captain Lewis crossed -the Missoula on a raft, and following the Nez Percé +the Missoula on a raft, and following the Nez Percé trail along the River-of-the-Road-to-Buffalo, the Big Blackfoot of to-day, came out July 7, the first of white men, on the opening through the main range of the @@ -14482,7 +14465,7 @@ August."</p> his comrades saw the gallant Captain depart into the hostile Blackfoot country. With only three men at his back it was a daring venture. Already the five Nez -Percés, fearful of their foes, had dropped off to seek their +Percés, fearful of their foes, had dropped off to seek their friends the Flatheads. In vain Lewis had promised to intercede and make peace between the tribes. Their terror of the Blackfeet surpassed their confidence in white @@ -14811,7 +14794,7 @@ them in their nostrils.</p> <p>Nine hundred miles now had they come down the Yellowstone, to its junction with the Missouri half a mile east of the Montana border, but no sign yet had they -found of Lewis. Clark wrote on the sand, "W. C. A +found of Lewis. Clark wrote on the sand, "W. C. A few miles further down on the right hand side."</p> <p>August 8, Sergeant Pryor and his companions appeared @@ -15276,7 +15259,7 @@ and skipping down to the water's edge.</p> Chouteau, the most noted man in St. Louis. Pierre, his brother, courtly, well-dressed, eminently social, came also; and even Madame, their mother, did not disdain to -come down to welcome her friends, <i>Les Américains</i>.</p> +come down to welcome her friends, <i>Les Américains</i>.</p> <p>It was like the return of a fur brigade, with shouts of laughter and genuine rejoicing.</p> @@ -15318,7 +15301,7 @@ bystander.</p> hurry with this note to Mr. Hay at Cahokia and bid him hold the mail until to-morrow noon."</p> -<p>Drouillard, with his old friend Pascal Cerré, the son +<p>Drouillard, with his old friend Pascal Cerré, the son of Gabriel, set off at once across the Mississippi. The wharf was lined with flatboats loaded with salt for 'Kasky and furs for New Orleans.</p> @@ -15326,7 +15309,7 @@ wharf was lined with flatboats loaded with salt for <p>Once a month a one-horse mail arrived at Cahokia. Formerly St. Louis went over there for mail,—St. Louis was only a village near Cahokia then; but already -<i>Les Américains</i> were turning things upside down.</p> +<i>Les Américains</i> were turning things upside down.</p> <p>"We haf a post office now. San Loui' haf grown."</p> @@ -15408,7 +15391,7 @@ a fort within the city.</p> <p>Other guests were there before them,—Charles Gratiot, who had visited the Clarks in Virginia, and John P. -Cabanné, who was to wed Gratiot's daughter, Julia. +Cabanné, who was to wed Gratiot's daughter, Julia. On one of those flatboats crowding the wharf that morning came happy Pierre Menard, the most illustrious citizen of Kaskaskia, with his bride of a day, Angelique @@ -16179,7 +16162,7 @@ the suspicions of Jefferson, who nightly tossed on his couch of worry.</p> <p>It was necessary for Captain, now Governor, Lewis, -to go to Philadelphia, to place his zoölogical and botanical +to go to Philadelphia, to place his zoölogical and botanical collections in the hands of Dr. Barton. Scarce had the now famous explorer reached the city before he was beset by artists. Charles Willson Peale, who had painted @@ -16355,7 +16338,7 @@ Americans in St. Louis.</p> <p>In fact, there had been a battle. Not with impunity should trade be carried into the land of anarchy. Three men were killed and several wounded, including Shannon -and René Jussaume. And they in turn had killed Black +and René Jussaume. And they in turn had killed Black Buffalo, the Teton chief that led the onslaught.</p> <p>All the way down the Missouri George Shannon had @@ -16710,7 +16693,7 @@ side-wheels, stern-wheels, and screws,—and steam was in the air.</p> <p>As the sun went down in lengthening shadows a purple -haze suffused the waters. Adown La Belle Rivière, "the +haze suffused the waters. Adown La Belle Rivière, "the loveliest stream that ever glistened to the moon," arose the evening cadence of the boatmen,—</p> @@ -16738,7 +16721,7 @@ curtain he floated into repose. The rough old life of camps and forts was gone forever.</p> <p>And to Julia, everything was new and strange,—La -Belle Rivière itself whispered of Louisiana. Like an +Belle Rivière itself whispered of Louisiana. Like an Alpine horn the bugle echoed the dreamlife of the waters.</p> <p>The fiddles scraping, boatmen dancing, the smooth @@ -16828,7 +16811,7 @@ years ago.</p> <i>A BRIDE IN ST. LOUIS</i></h3> -<p>"An <i>Américaine</i> bride, General Clark haf brought! +<p>"An <i>Américaine</i> bride, General Clark haf brought! She haf beeutiful eyes! She haf golden hair!" The Creole ladies were in a flutter.</p> @@ -16836,7 +16819,7 @@ The Creole ladies were in a flutter.</p> from their lattices. Governor Lewis himself had met the party at the shore, and now in the first state coach St. Louis had ever seen, was driving along the Rue de -l'Église to Auguste Chouteau's.</p> +l'Église to Auguste Chouteau's.</p> <p>"<i>Merci!</i> She haf maids enough!" whispered the gazers, as Rachel, Rhody, Chloe, Sarah, brought up the @@ -16852,7 +16835,7 @@ a glimpse of her face. Thickly swathed in veils, Julia concealed her features from the public gaze, but that only increased the interest.</p> -<p>"She shall haf a party, une grande réception," said +<p>"She shall haf a party, une grande réception," said Pierre Chouteau, and the demi-fortress was opened to a greater banquet than even at the return of Lewis and Clark.</p> @@ -16929,12 +16912,12 @@ the passers-by.</p> <p>Sometimes the walk led over the hill to the Grand Prairie west of town. The greensward waved in the -breezes like a wheatfield in May. Cabanné's wind-mill +breezes like a wheatfield in May. Cabanné's wind-mill could be seen in the distance across the prairie near the timber with its great wings fifty and sixty feet long flying in the air like things of life.</p> -<p>Cabanné the Swiss had married Gratiot's daughter.</p> +<p>Cabanné the Swiss had married Gratiot's daughter.</p> <p>St. Louis weddings generally took place at Easter, so other brides and grooms were walking there in those @@ -16943,9 +16926,9 @@ in Acadia, the rural population still went to and from the fields with their cattle and carts and old-style wheel ploughs.</p> -<p>In November Clark and his bride moved into the René +<p>In November Clark and his bride moved into the René Kiersereau cottage on the Rue Royale. The old French -House of René Kiersereau dated back to the beginning +House of René Kiersereau dated back to the beginning of St. Louis. Built of heavy timbers and plastered with rubble and mortar, it bade fair still to withstand the wear <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">334</a></span> @@ -17042,12 +17025,12 @@ at once deep into the wilderness," said Lisa; and by establishing posts monopolise the trade of the entire region."</p> -<p>Already had Lisa dreamed of the Santa Fé,—now he +<p>Already had Lisa dreamed of the Santa Fé,—now he looked toward the Pacific.</p> <p>And now, too, was the time to send Big White back to the Mandans. Under the convoy of two hundred and -fifty people,—enlisted soldiers and <i>engagés</i>, American +fifty people,—enlisted soldiers and <i>engagés</i>, American hunters, Creoles, and Canadian voyageurs,—the fur flotilla set sail with tons of traps and merchandise.</p> @@ -18651,7 +18634,7 @@ said Black Partridge, the Pottawattamie.</p> Illinois under Black Partridge, Shequenebec sent a hundred from his stronghold at the head of Peoria Lake, Mittitass led a hundred from his village at the portage on -the Rivière des Plaines. Painted black they came, inveterate +the Rivière des Plaines. Painted black they came, inveterate since Tippecanoe.</p> <p>"Look out for squalls," wrote John O'Fallon from @@ -19314,7 +19297,7 @@ for Clark.</p> <p>Wabasha arose, like a figure out of one of Catlin's pictures, in a chief's costume, with bullock horns and eagle feathers. There was a stir. With a profile like the -great Condé, followed by his pipe bearers with much ceremony, +great Condé, followed by his pipe bearers with much ceremony, the hereditary chief from the Falls of St. Anthony walked up to Governor Clark.</p> @@ -19583,7 +19566,7 @@ them to have their land titles looked into. "A process! a lawsuit!" they clasped their hands in despair. But ever the people of St. Louis put up their lands to a better figure, and watched out of their little square lattices for -the coming of <i>les Américains</i>.</p> +the coming of <i>les Américains</i>.</p> <p>All the talk was of land, land, land! The very wealth of ancient estates lay unclaimed for the first heir to enter, @@ -19911,7 +19894,7 @@ way, but, "I must pay my respects to the Governor." Savants from over the sea came to look at his Indian museum. General Clark had made the greatest collection in the world, and had become an authority on Indian -archæology.</p> +archæology.</p> <p>Governor Clark, too, was worried about affairs in St. Louis. Missouri was just coming in as a State, and a @@ -20062,7 +20045,7 @@ Benton, her first Senator, was seated, he flew to Floyd's support.</p> <p>"We must occupy the Columbia," said Benton. "Mere -adventurers may enter upon it as Æneas entered upon the +adventurers may enter upon it as Æneas entered upon the Tiber, and as our forefathers came upon the Potomac, the Delaware, and the Hudson, and renew the phenomenon of individuals laying the foundation of future empire. @@ -20329,7 +20312,7 @@ to their teaching?"</p> <p>"Yes," he said to the Osages. "Yes," to the Pawnees, to the Shawnees, and "Yes," to a delegation that came -from the far-off Nez Percés beyond the Rocky Mountains.</p> +from the far-off Nez Percés beyond the Rocky Mountains.</p> <p>In days of friction and excitement Clark did more than regiments to preserve peace on the frontier. He was a @@ -20512,7 +20495,7 @@ lakes at Maracasta, Clark's farm west of St. Louis. Clark's Indian deputy, busy ever with the ruddy aborigines, dealing out annuities, arranging for treaties and instructing the tribes, kept open house for the chiefs -at <i>Côte Plaquemine</i>, the Persimmon Hill. Clark's boys +at <i>Côte Plaquemine</i>, the Persimmon Hill. Clark's boys shot bows and arrows with the little Indians, Kennerly's little girls made them presents of "kinnikinick," dried leaves of the sumac and red osier dogwood, to smoke in @@ -20555,7 +20538,7 @@ Indians loved and trusted Paul Louise.</p> <p>"And you, Baronet Vasquez, take this to the Kansas nation."</p> -<p>Vasquez belonged to the old Spanish <i>régime</i>. As a +<p>Vasquez belonged to the old Spanish <i>régime</i>. As a youth he had gone out with the Spanish garrison at the cession of St. Louis, to return a fur trader. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406">406</a></span></p> @@ -20689,7 +20672,7 @@ Creoles. "Not so bad by far. In de old Spanish days dey once left St. Genevieve wit'out a horse to turn a mill. Dey came in to de village in de night and carried away everyt'ing dey could find. Nobody ever pursue -dem. But <i>les Américains</i>, dey chase dem. But den," commented +dem. But <i>les Américains</i>, dey chase dem. But den," commented the tolerant Creoles, "de Osage do not <i>kill</i>, like de Kickapoo and de Cherokee. Dey take de goods, steal de furs, beat with ramrods, drive him off,—but dey @@ -21076,7 +21059,7 @@ step by step, the savage land was taken into custody. And the pretty girls of St. Louis did their share to reconcile the "milletoers" to life at the frontier posts.</p> -<p>"Ho for Santa Fé!" One May morning in 1824 a +<p>"Ho for Santa Fé!" One May morning in 1824 a caravan of waggons passed through the streets of St. Louis.</p> @@ -21107,7 +21090,7 @@ in answer to repeated solicitations from the captive.</p> <p>"<i>Mi libertad Gobernador.</i>"</p> <p>Wrathfully they locked him closer than ever in the old -donjon of Santa Fé. +donjon of Santa Fé. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417" id="Page_417">417</a></span></p> <p>"My neighbour's son imprisoned there without cause!" @@ -21123,18 +21106,18 @@ In September the caravan returned with their capital increased a hundred-fold in sacks of gold and silver and ten thousand dollars' worth of furs.</p> -<p>The Santa Fé trade was established never to be shaken, +<p>The Santa Fé trade was established never to be shaken, though Indian battles, like conflicts with Arab sheiks of the desert, grew wilder than any Crusader's tale. Young men of the Mississippi dreamed of that "farther west" -of Santa Fé and Los Angeles.</p> +of Santa Fé and Los Angeles.</p> <p>"We must have a safe road," said the traders. "We may wander off into the desert and perish."</p> <p>In the same year Senator Benton secured an appropriation of ten thousand dollars for staking the plains to -Santa Fé.</p> +Santa Fé.</p> <p>"We must have protection," said the traders to Governor Clark at the Council House. At Council Grove, a @@ -21153,7 +21136,7 @@ into the ranks of the States.</p> <p>And one day Kit Carson, whose mother was a Boone, only sixteen and small of his age, ran away from a hard -task-master to join the Santa Fé caravan and grow up on +task-master to join the Santa Fé caravan and grow up on the plains.</p> <p>Daniel Boone was dead, at eighty-six, just as Missouri @@ -21227,7 +21210,7 @@ the boats were launched, the caravans ready.</p> <p>Deck-piled, swan-like upon the water the Missouri steamboat started. Pierre Chouteau was there to see her off, Governor Clark was there to bid farewell to his chiefs. -<i>Engagés</i> of the Company, fiercely picturesque, with leg +<i>Engagés</i> of the Company, fiercely picturesque, with leg knives in their garters, jumped to store away the cargo.</p> <p>Up as far as St. Charles Clark and the Chouteaus sometimes @@ -21459,14 +21442,14 @@ on foot nearly two thousand miles to see him at St. Louis.</p> <p>As but yesterday came back the memory of Camp -Chopunnish among the Nez Percés of Oregon. Over +Chopunnish among the Nez Percés of Oregon. Over Tunnachemootoolt's camp the American flag was flying when they arrived from the Walla Walla.</p> <p>It did not take long to discover their story. Some winters before an American trapper (in Oregon tradition reputed to have been Jedediah Smith), watched the -Nez Percés dance around the sun-pole on the present site +Nez Percés dance around the sun-pole on the present site of Walla Walla.</p> <p>"It is not good," said the trapper, "such worship is @@ -21491,7 +21474,7 @@ they would tell us the truth."</p> <p>"Yes, Lewis and Clark always pointed upward. They must have been trying to tell us."</p> -<p>So, benighted, bewildered, the Nez Percés talked +<p>So, benighted, bewildered, the Nez Percés talked around their council fires. Over in the buffalo country Black Eagle's band met the white traders.</p> @@ -21515,7 +21498,7 @@ in Idaho.</p> <p>One day they reached St. Louis and inquired for the Red Head Chief.</p> -<p>Very well Governor Clark remembered his Nez Percé-Flathead +<p>Very well Governor Clark remembered his Nez Percé-Flathead friends. His silver locks were shaken by roars of laughter at their reminders of his youth, the bear hunts, the sale of buttons for camas and for kouse. The @@ -21541,8 +21524,8 @@ the advent of Christ and his crucifixion.</p> teacher shall be sent with the Book."</p> <p>Just as change of diet and climate had prostrated Lewis -and Clark with sickness among the Nez Percés twenty-five -years before, so now the Nez Percés fell sick in St. +and Clark with sickness among the Nez Percés twenty-five +years before, so now the Nez Percés fell sick in St. Louis. The Summer was hotter than any they had known in their cool northland. Dr. Farrar was called. Mrs. Clark herself brought them water and medicine as @@ -21559,9 +21542,9 @@ young woman of that day, "was when those three Indians followed their dead companion to the grave."</p> <p>His name is recorded at the St. Louis cathedral as -"Keepeelele, buried October 31, 1831," a "ne Percé de -la tribu des Choponeek, nation appellée Tête Plate." -"Keepeelele," the Nez Percés of to-day say "was the +"Keepeelele, buried October 31, 1831," a "ne Percé de +la tribu des Choponeek, nation appellée Tête Plate." +"Keepeelele," the Nez Percés of to-day say "was the old man, the Black Eagle." Sometimes they called him the "Speaking Eagle," as the orator on occasions.</p> @@ -21580,7 +21563,7 @@ mission, became a chief.</p> <p>The semi-Christian Wyandots desired to follow their friends to the West. Sitting there in the office, transacting business, Governor Clark spoke of the Flathead Nez -Percés.</p> +Percés.</p> <p>"I have never seen a Flathead, but have often heard of them," answered William Walker. Curiosity prompted @@ -21614,7 +21597,7 @@ for some days, and when he began again, the handwriting was that of an aged man.</p> <p>None mourned this sad event more than the tender-hearted -Nez Percés, who remained until Spring.</p> +Nez Percés, who remained until Spring.</p> <p>When the new steamer <i>Yellowstone</i> of the American Fur Company, set out for its first great trip up the @@ -21632,14 +21615,14 @@ white," said Governor Clark to his friend the artist, as he gave him his passport into the Indian country.</p> <p>On the way up the river Catlin noticed the two young -Nez Percés, and painted their pictures.</p> +Nez Percés, and painted their pictures.</p> <p>As if pursued by a strange fatality, at the mouth of the Yellowstone No-Horns-On-His-Head died,—Rabbit-Skin-Leggings alone was left to carry the word from St. Louis.</p> -<p>Earlier than ever that year the Nez Percés had crossed +<p>Earlier than ever that year the Nez Percés had crossed the snowy trails of the Bitter Root to the buffalo country in the Yellowstone and Judith Basin.</p> @@ -21652,13 +21635,13 @@ afar off,—"A man shall be sent with the Book."</p> <p>Back over the hills and the mountains the message flew,—"A man shall be sent with the Book."</p> -<p>Every year after that the Nez Percés went over to the +<p>Every year after that the Nez Percés went over to the east, looking for the man with the Book.</p> <p>Nearly a year elapsed before William Walker got back from his explorations and wrote a public letter giving <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_428" id="Page_428">428</a></span> -an account of the Nez Percés in their search for the +an account of the Nez Percés in their search for the Book. His account of meeting them in General Clark's office, and of the object of their errand, created a tremendous sensation.</p> @@ -22348,7 +22331,7 @@ age of ninety-nine, the last of the heroic band of Lewis and Clark.</p> <p>William Walker, who gave to the world the story of -the Nez Percés, led his Wyandots into Kansas, and, with +the Nez Percés, led his Wyandots into Kansas, and, with <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_442" id="Page_442">442</a></span> the first white settlers, organising a Provisional Government after the plan of Oregon, became himself the first @@ -22415,360 +22398,6 @@ Philippines.</p> document have been preserved.</p> </div> -<hr class="full" /> -<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONQUEST***</p> -<p>******* This file should be named 42925-h.txt or 42925-h.zip *******</p> -<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/2/9/2/42925">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/9/2/42925</a></p> -<p> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p> -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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