Identifier: officialnorthern1899nort (find matches)
Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dered at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. On the i8th of September, 1877, Col. Miles, havinglearned that the hostile Nez Perces, from Idaho, underChief Joseph, pursued by Gens. Howard and Sturgis, werelikely to reach the frontier before they could be overtaken,started out from his cantonment to intercept them. By aseries of rapid marches on the flank of the hostiles, aftertraversing a distance of 267 miles, Col. Miles came up withthe Nez Perc6 camp on the morning of September 30th atthe Bear Paw mountains, and compelled its surrender aftera desperate resistance, with severe losses on both sides. The troops under the command of Col. Miles, in theiroperations during the years 1876 and 1877, marched no lessthan 4,000 miles, captured 1,600 horses, ponies andmules, destroyed a large amount of camp equipage belong-ing to the hostiles, caused the surrender of numerous bands,and cleared the country of upward of seven thousandIndians. By this series of brilliant successes not less than
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148 The Northern Pacific Railroad, 400 miles of the Yellowstone valley were opened tosettlement. Current Ferries.—On the Yellowstone river, as well ason many other Western streams^ a method of ferrying is invogue which presents some peculiarities to Eastern eyes.The swift current is used as a motor for swinging a flat-bottomed ferryboat over the river. An elevated wirecable is stretched from shore to shore. Pulleys, attachedby stout ropes to either end of the boat, are geared to thecable. The craft is shoved off from the brink at an angleoblique to the current, and starts languidly, the pulleysmoving spasmodically at first. Presently the full force ofthe tide is felt, and the pulleys spin along the cable, carry-ing the boat across at fine speed. Then reaching theslacker water near the opposite shore, the pulleys resumethe jerky progress on their cable track, and the boat gratesupon the beach or puts her broad nose gently upon thestrand precisely where it is wanted. The steering is d

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