volume xxi, p. 187, note 36. The former was the beginning of

Sublette's Cut Off, sometimes called the "Dry Drive," because of scarcity of water on the route. This crossed directly to Bear River, without passing southward by Fort Bridger. Such would seem to have been the route taken by De Smet's company. The regular trail went down the Big Sandy, forded Green River near its forks, and proceeded across to the site of Fort Bridger, founded two years later.--ED.

[197] Captain Bonneville's expedition of 1832 was the first to cross the Green River in wagons. See Irving, _Rocky Mountains_, chapter ii.--ED.

[198] They were in reality upon Green River, a tributary of the Colorado. See Wyeth's _Oregon_, in our volume xxi, p. 60, note 38.--ED.

[199] Captain Henry Fraeb (Frapp), who was one of the partners of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company (1830-34). He was well known in the mountain fur-trade, frequently being associated therein with Fitzpatrick, De Smet's guide. According to Bidwell, he was killed the night after leaving this party; Frémont says--_Exploring Expedition_, p. 40--that this occurred the latter part of August, 1841, in a battle with Sioux and Cheyenne.--ED.

[200] This tribe is often classified with the Digger Indians, for whom see _ante_, p. 167, note 38; but the latter possessed no horses. The Soshocoes (Shoshocoes) appear to be a band of the Shoshoni proper--closely allied, as De Smet notes, but with less property, and less virile in character. They were the branch of Shoshoni which had their roving habitat along the banks of the Green River; whereas the Shoshoni (or Snake) roved chiefly on Lewis River.--ED.

[201] The name of Don Quixote's steed, a charger all skin and bone.--ED.

[202] For these springs see Townsend's _Narrative_, in our volume xxi, p. 200, note 45.--ED.

[203] This was the route by which the trail crossed from the waters of the Colorado to those of the Lewis, a difficult mountain path in Bannock County, Idaho, approximating the route of the Oregon Short Line Railway.--ED.

[204] The captain and guide of this expedition was Thomas Fitzpatrick, for whom see Townsend's _Narrative_, in our volume xxi, p. 192, note 40. See De Smet's letter recommending his services, in Chittenden and Richardson, _De Smet_, iv, p. 1465.--ED.

[205] The Portneuf River, for which see our volume xxi, p. 209, note 49 (Townsend). This characteristic of the Portneuf--a series of dams of mineral deposit--make it a beautiful succession of still, dark pools and foaming cascades, and may now be noted from the windows of trains on the Oregon Short Line Railway.--ED.