Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2

In communicating the information contained in the following chapters, in which I mean to treat especially of some tribes of the aborigines of North America, I shall take it for...

Indian Invitations--Baptism of the new comers--Trade with the Indians--Distinction conferred on Ninoch-Kiaiu--Affront to the Chiefs--Visit to Kutonapi--Death of Martin, the _Eng...

Difficult Navigation--Remarkable Formation of the Eminences--La Rivière aux Trembles--Prairie à la Corne du Cerf--Successful Buffalo Chase--Wreck of the Beaver Keel-boat--The ru...

Fort Mc Kenzie, which, at the time of its first establishment in 1832, was called by Mr. Mitchell, its founder, Fort Piekann, is designed for carrying on the fur trade with the...

Grouse Creek--Teapot Creek--Meeting with some Persons belonging to the Company--The Skeleton of the Bear--Chase of the Prairie Dogs--Little Rocky Mountain Range--Elk Island, and...

Lewis and Clarke gave an account of the state of this part of the country at the time of their residence in the vicinity of the Mandan villages, in the winter of 1803-4.[172] At...

All our Baggage wet through--Delay occasioned thereby in the Stone Walls--Great Number of Buffaloes in the Mauvaises Terres--Rutting of the Elk--Great Number of Beasts of the Ch...

Present Situation of Fort Union--Absence of Mr. Mc Kenzie--News of the Battle at Fort Mc Kenzie--Buffalo Running--Fort William, a new Settlement of Messrs. Soublette and Campbel...

The name, Manitaries, by which this tribe is now generally known, was given by the Mandans, and signifies, "those who came over the water." The French give them the singular des...

Departure of the Assiniboin Steamer--Excursions into the Prairie--The arrival of several bands of Assiniboins--The Crees, or Knistenaux--The Visits to the Camps of the Indians--...

Last Visit to Fort William--Flakes of Ice in the Missouri--Bad Condition of our Larder--Relief from this Distress--Mr. Bodmer misses his Way in the Forest--Loss of our Geologica...

The Arikkaras on the Missouri are a tribe which, many years ago, separated from the Pawnees, and settled on the Lower Missouri, where they inhabited two villages.[352] At the ti...

[291] The author refers to a letter on this subject, written by Mr. Catlin, and published in a New York paper; but this is by no means so complete as that given in his valuable...

[189] Both these chiefs were still living at the Mandan villages when Lewis and Clark passed a winter (1804-05) among them. Black Cat, or Posecopsahe, lived at the second villag...

v, p. 225, note 120. The tribal affinity between the Grosventres of the Prairies and the Arapaho was recognized by frequent visits of the former to the land of the latter. Consu...

[322] Though all their arrows appear, at first sight, to be perfectly alike, there is a great difference in the manner in which they are made. Of all the tribes of the Missouri...

[263] The bow-lance is a large bow, to one end of which the iron point of a lance is fastened. It serves only for show, and is never used in serious combat. It is very handsomel...

[176] General Henry Leavenworth was a native of Connecticut (1783); entering the army (1812), he passed through all the grades until brevetted a brigadier-general in 1824. He wo...

[46] Lewis calls these "Elk Rapids," but Clark gives the name as "Elk & Faun Riffle," since "in the rapid we saw a Dow Elk & hir faun." Coues thinks this the present Lone Pine R...

[19] Lewis and Clark so named this stream from the unusual number of porcupines seen near its mouth. The present Porcupine River is a branch of the Milk. The stream here so desi...

[317] See our volume xv, p. 92. These hiding places are described as prepared by the squaws in case of an unexpected attack, warriors only retreating thereto if hard-pressed.--ED.

[24] For a description of this disaster, which was occasioned by a severe windstorm, see Montana Historical Society _Contributions_, iii, pp. 204, 205; two employés and one Indi...

[282] The Minitaree had a creation-myth similar to that of the Mandan, by which they were represented as climbing from a lake when a tree broke, the remainder of the tribe being...

[204] Maximilian appears to distinguish between La Côte Noire and the Black Hills. The term Côtes Noires was, however, applied by the early voyageurs to the entire body of the h...

of Maria's River, a little below a cluster of small islands, on the west side of the river, opposite bold bluffs. It was maintained until 1844. In that year Culbertson having be...

_Comment by Ed._ John T. Irving, Jr., accompanied United States Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth, who was sent (1833) to arrange with the Pawnee for the well-being of the remnant...

[31] The French-Canadian engagés applied the term "Bad Lands" to many parts of the West. Those districts now usually thus designated, are in the valley of the Little Missouri in...

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