Economic beginnings of the Far West- how we won the land beyond the Mississippi (1912) (14776371504)

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Title: Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Coman, Katharine 1857-1915

Subjects: Mormons and Mormonism -- General works United States, West -- History Utah Economic conditions

Publisher: New York: Macmillan

Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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beaver were evident. In (one) place particu-larly they had cut all the timber down for threeacres in front and on nearly one back from the riverand had removed a considerable proportion of it,the timber grew very thick and some of it was aslarge as a mans body. 24 As the explorers entered the foot-hills, the tem-perature fell, and ice appeared along the riversedge; pines and cedar trees began to supplant theCottonwood, and the air was astonishingly dry andpure. As the stream grew more rapid, riffles androcky points rendered navigation difficult. Thecurrent was too strong for oars and too deep for thepole, and the canoes had to be dragged along bythe cordelle. The men were frequently obliged tojump into the water to stave the boats off therocks, and the strain on their endurance was great.The men are compelled to be in the water even totheir arm-pits, and the water is yet very could, andso frequent are those point(s) that they are onefourth of their time in the water, added to this the

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SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA 259 banks and bluffs along which they are obliged topass are so slippery and the mud so tenacious thatthey are unable to wear their mockersons, and inthat situation draging the heavy burthen of a canoeand walking acasionally for several hundred yardsover the sharp fragments of rocks which tumblefrom the clifts and garnish the borders of the river. 25 On May 25, Captain Lewis ascended some hillsnear Windsor Creek, Elk Rapids, and descried thesnowy peaks of the Rock Mountains. Thesources of the Missouri must be near at hand as wellas that pass over the great divide which would leadto westward-flowing rivers, and Lewis was keenlyaware that the difficulties of his journey had begun.On June 3, they came upon a river flowing in fromthe north, as large as the Missouri and so similar ingeneral character that the captains were at a lossto determine which was the real Missouri. Tomistake the stream at this period of the season,two months of the traveling season having

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