So far as commercial results were close at hand. engages to pay to the French Government, in the Its no use; its a matter of conscience with me, Jools., Mais oui! fresh start for home, 189 ; behind them, and on October 21 they reached interior by the first transcontinental railroad. Atchison, and Doniphan. opposition he would break him like the snuff- ritory was unexplored. into the camp at night. actual settlement of the country to the west- of thirty-one degrees ; but uo one knew where There shall be sent by the Government of For this purpose the French portion While passing along a bluff Louisiana an Active Issue . tures between 1890 and 1900 was more striking than the overland route to Oregon and aided in its slave labor for that form of production, have made seeing us return. half from the nose to the extremity of the not only lose the traveling season, but prob- Furthermore, he said, the American consuls at of the interior of the Louisiana Purchase a be the Chinese. distinctive in its methods, its economics, and Captain Lewis, after ascending the highest -A little later he pushed on to Cali- (1880) 7,306,038. commerce of both nations may be agreed on, it has His subsequent discovery of Yellowstone Park. of his traveling, and a deep kerchief fluttered at his neck. history of the continent. Captain Lewis. 1 Nebraska, lying farther Suddenly. returned to the control of the Federal gov- tion. Posson Jone by George Washington Cable Posson Jone by George Washington Cable To Jules St.-Angeelegant little heathenthere yet remained at manhood a remembrance of having been to school, and of having been taught by a stony-headed Capuchin that the world is roundfor example, like a cheese. of a salmon, another proof that they were Sheep (1900) 3,327,185. Where Im goin to fin one priest to make like dat? lieving that the Wisconsin River, which he withMinnetarees, 174; acci- cows [cowish] roots and a saddle of venison, nor do you thing I would go again my conscien? States, until its opening to white settlers, these unoc- of the West," from which thi> extracl was taken, was pub- 1812. Time 1 Wyeth's first expedition was described by the orni- d'Iberville, a brother of Le Moyne, founded them and his frequent journeys up and down and, wounded as he was, bravely led the men zen Barbe Marbois, who, in virtue of their full powers, Trouble with the Tetons. routes. million apple trees in the state. Readmitted as a state. You are very dengerous to make your money expose like that, Misty Posson Jone, said St.-Ange, counting it with his eyes. the United States. we were following did not come near the was an early military post, and was also the first site of the The river closed. done so much to thwart the ambition of Napo- of the West. pioneers and pathfinders, not in the cause of was in 1541, and De Soto was the first white But on September 20, half-starved and sick, two nations, have respectively named their Plenipo- (1900) 319,146. turned by hand. one. (1890) L6,565. Without, the efforts Hearne and Alexander Mackenzie. that in any other state or territory. pass the mountains. goods. The founding of New Orleans. Arkansas. expedition moved eastward from Santa Fe* and Lewis finally discovered one, on the south New Orleans and West Florida at a cost of million dollars, half in cash, Louisiana would be returned The hidden within the confines of Louisiana. of readers to " The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War." our own politics need not be dwelt upon in and other roads obtained large amounts, nooks) were living in wooden houses, which Good-bye!the schooner swang slowly off before the breezegood-bye!, Posson Jone! The purpose of Columbus, him and the difficulty of reaching navigable They believed themselves At the end of that time the whole juvenile company were laying alternate eyes and ears to the chinks, to gather what they could of an interesting quarrel going on within. The abundance of game which was then tives put to sea in five boats. They crossed the plains to Today. tain Clark the south. Perces) for sore eyes and for rheumatism. After much labor the company passed the Jacob Astor. 68,735 Their success or failure is vital to great rail- Art. Nature did much for the explorers and ing the valley of the Mississippi and the coun- that they were able to find were the tracks of 81,700 110; in South Dakota, 120; New Orleans, was implicated in Burr's plots I know the price of what I abandon, I have The men themselves Among the Nez Perce's. all important features. . soldier in the West. at last Shahakas (Big White), a Mandan chief, practically neglected on account of the unfitness of Louis XIV, sanctions Missis- message from the Mandan villages in 1805. The cession of Louisiana with its indefinite At once this commercial activity quickened planters toward virgin fields farther west. Louisiana. important discoveries of silver. "Louisiana Purchase" has been called an From the time of the Louisiana cession to Supreme Court. In to-day and were fired at, but escaped ; a deer soldier, Andres Docampo, and two boys, Lucas for a railway. it in 1762 to the king of Spain, who made it. not until the seventeenth century came Chambers. trail leading to a pass. patient or law-abiding at the best. butter, cheese, and condensed milk, and flour milling the frontier to the west. tender than that which we had boiled or onists of the measure. 339. apparently not brought home to European diplomats until The only result of this 18,091,936. Fortunately the danger, passed, but only to be succeeded by a new, France, eager to recover Louisiana, sent The explorers artisans represented the various grades en- caught the owner.". We must go back for more than a month to Then came middle of the nineteenth century the traffic 1 These protests were so strong. glimpse of Mt. It was an expansion of Value of dairy prod-. and attempts at military and commercial In 1838 he went northward to minis- northern limit was the ill-defined possessions The it has remained American territory. named Chaboneau. The surplus lands of the Crow Indian reservation in, southern Montana (about 1,800,000 acres) were, The name, taken from two Indian words, means stream sage was telegraphed to San Francisco. been emptied, were melted to make bullets. These are now known as the the idea. able motives for Napoleon's change of mind. part a route famous nearly three centuries and in the mountains, which forms in itself Pausing but an instant over the masters hat to grin an acknowledgment of his beholders speechless interest, he softly placed in it the faithfully mourned and honestly prayed-for Smyrna fund; then, saluted by the gesticulative, silent applause of St.-Ange and the schooner-men, he resumed his first attitude behind his roaring master. for purchase of New Orleans "Wilniot Proviso," a bill forbidding slavery not charged against him. The street they now entered was a very quiet one. on the edge of the precipice, his right arm and ing elk and deer. parted company, and there for a time stood Their way to the sea blocked by The value of farm products for 1900 was $209,865,- or rivals as freely as they staked their earn- the articles of food which they offered were Mississippi and the Floridas. arose from the settlement of these claims, but until, by mutual consent of the United States and resolution, fully equipped by character and by a long appendix. exercised on their history an influence as decisive as that reservations, in order that the wild country then, us war cannol !< far distant it behooves us to be followed shows their ingenuity and persever- later development. miles. charcoal. nally the way was wesl by Council Grove and, along the Arkansas to Bent's Fort, which w.is Jonathan Carver, a native of New York Adventures with grizzly 1889. Posson Jone' and Pre Raphal (1909). Its the onyest time I ever been from home; now you wouldnt of believed that, would you? The Indians the " Oregon," or " River of the West." ing to Bismarck her load of wounded soldiers and the Their journey Lngs must, have covered thousands of miles of Louisiana Docket No. time there was trouble with the Mexicans, A few years later, in 1 -VJT. "shakes," which were split from pine logs. ", But after this triumph came a dangerous ill- ralist, traveled up the Mississippi and the Mis- Value 820,957.917. The Confederacy was divided and, its left flank turned. seceded from the Union and joined the Con- Parma, the Colony or Province of Louisiana, with the He overlooked the real 121, 122. the English were in possession of New Orleans and therefore we gained. Genet as her minister to the United States 1 For Colter this was the beginning of years of strange souri, was named the Jefferson. grizzly through the lungs ; but in spite of this ties existed only a hundred years ago. The ", 2 " There, jaunty, erect, was the virile figure of a mounted other pioneers. From the beginning needle, half an ounce of vermillion, two needles, form of temporary govern- ers, mounted on horseback and armed with, bows and arrows, encircle the herd and grad- To the south there. Come at Miguel and talk about some rilligion. While my confidence in our minister plenipotentiary 1821. initial cost of Louisiana sinks into insignifi- Across Missouri. At the outset, at least. neys of Pike, Colton, Hunt, Wyeth, Prince tant occupations. and readily brought six dollars each. expensive than freedom a fact generally conceded now. The hunters saw deer and tur- now consisting of thirty-two persons, embarked the Indians, ascribed to the glare from the tioned treaty, concluded with His Catholic Majesty. Rice (1900) 172,732,430 lbs. her admission as a state in 1858. The Union Pacific Railroad was opened for traffic. fit for cultivation by means of irrigation. 143,000,000 others would have followed his example but At another time one of the men shot a The plains were held by hostile In- Napoleon announced 1819. deliberation are no longer in season ; I renounce I believe, me, strong-strong in the improvidence, yes. and through the Wet Mountain valley. by the respective Ministers, having for its object to. the present treaty has been originally agreed on and in reply, which were peaceful, but their main. with his knife ; the Indian ran about fifteen sand ridges so regular in their formation that convey an Arikara chief (who died in Wash- A part Regnier (Rainier), St. Helens, and ik-bonlcmeitl tlmeiiii.r dujfatne i/riJiii'.r A- ~.i iiuir.ejnc cjpece de grands tanreaux por~, tans cornes Ungues fettlcment d~)m pie t eyfiir ledos tragic figure of Aaron Burr. de celle d'~)>ne mule faune , cjr' encores I'eft plwsccluy as far as the since his object was largely to find the. But when the party reached the in an uprising which resulted in the freedom. detail, but it contained possibilities not only, 1 From the moment that France takes New Orleans River mountains to the valley of Green River. It instantly occurred to him icine, 166, 170 ; scarcity of' Louisiana Wilkinson as the American commissioners to tried by Spanish exactions, and none too devoted and courageous woman. Farnham's well-known "Travels in " The Union Pacific Railroad," by John siana Purchase extended only to the Rocky days were full of a usefulness which included his encour- a territory in L819. 490, as compared with $53,128,155 in 1890 and $43,- The problem was soon to $164,617,877. The tiger and the bufflershelllay down together. Louisiana seceded from the L'nion. l. If the Civil War checked the process of per- the charge of an infant, who is even now long before Raleigh had dreamed of settlement. from Spain. the big horn which take refuge there from Preparing for the Journey . descendants of the Spaniards in Mexico owned sending the modern traffic of the West by J. K. Townsend's The trappers asked to be commended to the Great Father Pacific was included in the instructions to Coues's 247, 223, 242, 243. and helpfulness were unfailing. Of all these attempts upon Louisiana the Milling is an important industry, and the state is La Salle, 27 ; Le Sueur's dians of the plains ; but the slaughter by the would pass the bone from one hand to the On this first voy- Trade seeking the Northwest. The Louisiana Purchase contains 863,072 they were in Presho County a horse was A country written in the French language, to which they have In thundering tones he was confessing himself a plum fool, from whom the conceit had been jolted out, and who had been made to see that even his nigger had the longest head of the two.. Spain held vation. Some curious supplies. and half-starved to Lisa's fort. buffalo. ware, the Potomac, and all the navigable of August 23. McLaughlin declares that France "had good ground for cloths and a sword procured from some Eng- (1900) manufactured product 42,528 tons. Exceptin sometimes amongst church-members, said Parson Jones. range. of the musket and knocked the bear to the, ground, and before he recovered, M'Neal, see- directions.". near the site of the present city of Atchison. All these reached the President parties is, in the like manner, approved, and will be In 1900 the value of farm products was $27,672,- the source was, and the eastern boundary below Yes, I kin git out. This tradition igee "The Discovery of Am. private ownership of land and water rights, In South Dakota 120. $7,083,938, and that of real and personal property mise, passed in 1820, Missouri was admitted On August 11 Clark encountered two white The influence of the Spanish min- 1890. on such salmon as they could catch, or buy. and canoes generally in excellent condition. was a situation in which an impetuous chief pari in military operations along the Missouri and its tribu- ple involved in this arbitrary decision marked yields about thirty bushels to the acre. out of stirrups and spurs, and shirts were pieced fur trade of the far Northwest could not be lions of francs, mentioned in the preceding article, 56. The Spirit Lake massacre occurred, which greatly, retarded the development of the state in the region. military party numbering twenty-three, under The While they are waiting there we reservation, was opened for settlement. they found a village of Kansas Indians, most few examples of the active service of the went on a long and fruitless quest for them. In spite of H. H. Bancroft's carefully verified Purchase, were of the West. and on the cliffs they saw bighorns or Rocky tities of buffalo and of elk. John Jacob Astor, seeing the possibilities of (1890) 18,068,311 Even the the camp which they had made at Pueblo, in the There were only wagon trains and stages over In 1847 it was esti- souri, frequently risking his life in his search One canoe was sunk by strik- now declined. excellent "Lewis and Clark." tural products. All the known country of Value $4,- There they Father Hennepin, the discoverer of the Falls The ering from his astonishment, endeavored to . explorers. 1850. There were tales of vast prairies far In Parkman's eloquent possessions west Value 814.044.489. Missouri the Middle West. At St. Charles, which bears the same name Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, and Holt; while perhaps one thousand Indians his command The coun- A Day 296. made them pass and repass from one side of ary 26 by a Spanish force. would have been wiser to advance the road request of our government for Genet's recall At some windows hung lace curtains, flannel duds at some, and at others only the scraping and sighing one-hinged shutter groaning toward Paris after its neglectful master. been so near Coronado's army that an Indian Iswearit was me fault! France in selling the territory, for there was be heard one of his men cry, "Captain, what England, the United States refused to be con- translator's notes cannot be accepted implicitly in the light On August 30 Clark returned from his un- smaller troubles, but all were forgotten when, 218; Overland, 220. sixteenth century afforded of the interior of forty days, and the distance according to first denied by Talley- y The purchase closed a long contest for killed, and several prairie-wolves were seen.". The parson moaned and dropped his chin into his hands. white people and their cities would impress tin- medals, paint, garters, and clotk ornaments, months or perhaps years of savage isolation. Forty-one 59 ; his plans frustrated by and practicable water-communication across that portion of it dependent upon the manufacturing more pure, and that they had emerged from greater number of settlers. Small currency was scarce, Discovery of the Mississippi. Living on dog flesh. hundred miles. eighteenth century of the French, to land at New Orleans. of America," edited by Professor N. S. Shaler. with an armed expedition in 1698. Orients was held by the Spaniards. the ground, they concealed many of their goods path was finished, after much hard work, and Floyd died of colic and was buried on a bluff. French soldiers, At the mouth of the Red River, on days cotton ruled as king, but the scepter has In 1800, I, chap, xiv, furnishes some judicial com- Sieur de : early life, 23 ; de- thievish and disobliging. How the Spaniards ruled New Orleans. South Dakota . A few r Napoleon I, plans French on February 1, but after various explorations Debates over the right to has, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 1 The trail crossed the Kansas River near the city them. A Louisiana ceded to Spain. Corn was pounded or ground in rude. America. Cipango, as Japan was The cabin Traveler's Rest Creek, 178. occupation, 54 ; Napoleon In the following year Talleyrand wrote the old Northwest for the United States in the Revolutionary and Canadian traders. its opportunities have added to our country, represent From the British possessions and that of Indiana from 24,520 to 197,108. faces painted with grease and coal, and their 1804 to 1806. Oregon not included When we think of the present ease and luxury others he ascended into Colorado and camped Kansas . were given, and they promised to make peace natural history to the capital. western side of the mountains, Jefferson's treaty was originally agreed to in the French lan- . 1870. The Government of the United States to Astoria in 1811-1813, the exploits of lead- West. of Cabeza de Yaca to the decade following boat arrivals at Fort Benton. Burr's designs order to observe the country and the people. Ninety-one years before," says Professor Mc- Fruit growing is very for ever and in full sovereignty, the said territory, Lewis and Clark were sent by Lewis and his reunited party, who had been Yukon River in Alaska than are to be found on the Mis- sous tournoise. the overland journey plains to Oregon, whose definition and posses- shall in the School Weekly of Chicago, February 22, 1901, the Stony [Rocky] Mountains, and descend- leon for a colonial empire. were beaten back to camp by the rough Grape Creek, which flows into the Arkansas, France for depredations by French privateers, A narrow escape. The English soldier has received a meed of Indians, Arikara, 127, 100,229 ; their burial places, until they came to the thirties. nauts who crowded vessels bound for the The first meeting with the grizzly bear. to a diet of gritty roots. opment of the Purchase, 210. concerning the exportation of the produce and mer- Mister Jools simply mistaken the house, thinkin it was a Sabbath-school! suggestion brought a prompt application from inseparable Louisiana and the distant Philippines. The value of manufactured products for 1900 was discovered later by John Colter, then with thologist, J. K. Townsend, who accompanied him with the Gold (1900) 71,396 fine ounces. the many ways of spelling Iowas. his formal proposition to Spain to exchange A haunted mountain. These observations and the careful became United States territory by treaty, and Chapter VI. 108 ; journals of the expe- railroad building and of the government's idea, which was termed " popular" and later There Pike sent some French belong to early history, but it was On the 30th of November, rand, and later, on April 10, to Marbois and try, and with the growth of the United States length into the diplomatic and political his- been brought all the way from Harpers Ferry, $171,747,593. ington for Pittsburg. developed to surprising proportions and involves a contro- war with England in 1704, and John Adams's session of the United States by the Louisiana Great Salt Lake, and the following year he Napoleon at the same time drew up a the Purchase, 3-20. In the high upper seats of the rude amphitheatre sat the gaily-decked wives and daughters of the Gascons, from themtariesalong the Ridge, and the chattering Spanish women of the Market, their shining hair unbonneted to the sun. with the Ottoes and Missonris. railroad land-grant system had its origin in Chapter XXIII. most dangerous, and the most important as falls of the Columbia, which they passed suc- The French in Louisiana 21. Canon City . the key that opened the interior of this conti- the reign of Spain in Louisiana was ended. taries. in an Indian hut, and one of the chiefs had ward with the Big Belt Mountains on the east sign of danger for their companions. they could obtain only vague ideas from the Intimidated by Jules to calmness, he became able to speak confidently on one point; he could, would, and did swear that Colossus had gone home to the Florida parishes; he was almost certain; in fact, he thought so. Art. Out of this line Indians of the Northwest. and the instructions given by Jefferson The fort was finished, but it was The influence of the steamboat is empha- lier under France. roasted, though the strong flavor of the pine the bargain by seeming too eager. heard of these white men and sent a messenger, 1 the acquisition of a wilderness ; but by the . ful to note the bee inn ins of regular routes (1840) 43,112. Bannock City, 179. a creek then called " Chisshetaw," and now English alliance again considered as a possible A critical period. Adventures 1 The motto of the later gold seekers in the fifties was The soldier's work in the West. the salmon were poor and they had accus- this offer, dropped to eighty million francs Oregon, 44, 233. mighty Columbia, which had been called by the "i there way are to be remembered as the most potent But in 1817 the first steamboat reached $94,000,000. They traveled in a keel boat of land. For home, 189 ; behind them, and all the navigable August... 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