Identifier: frmont49storyo00dell (find matches)
Title: Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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oimtry,but those who have seen the flames moving by day withrace-horse speed, or filling the night sky with an ominousglow, will well remember the impressiveness of the sight.The party now returned to St. Louis and prepared for thework of the following year. With this expedition of 1839another important person in the education of Fremont comesin view. This is Etienne Provost, called / homme des mon-tagnes, a man probably as familiar with the still, to thepeople at large, mysterious Far West as any man then living,not excepting Kit Carson or Jim Bridger. The associationwith Provost must have brought much knowledge to Fre-monts quick intelligence. Geyer was again botanist, andthey were accompanied by a French army officer, CaptainBelligny, merely to see the country. Steamboats were in operation on the Missouri, and whiletheir ascent was often dubious of success, they usually For information on Pipestone see Catlinite in Handbook of AmericanIndians, Part I., U. S. Bur. Eth., Bulletin 30.
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rt w S ^ H .2 Early Missouri Steamboats 13 arrived. On the second Nicollet expedition the party leftSt. Louis in April on the Antelope, and they were seventydays in reaching Fort Pierre (Chouteau), in the centre ofwhat is now South Dakota, an average of about eighteenmiles a day. The few steamboats on the Missouri before1840 were clumsy, rough-built craft, usually from 100 to130 feet long, twenty to thirty feet beam, seven feet depthof hold, and drawing from three to five feet of water. Theyhad two boilers sometimes, but only one engine, of the high-pressure type. Five or six miles an hour was the maximumspeed, and often the current opposing progress was sostrong that the vessel would remain quite stationary formoments at a time. At night they were accustomed totie up to a convenient bank, where the crew choppedwood, the only possible fuel, for the next days run. Upto 1832 the keel-boat had been the cargo carrier, aswell as the smaller mackinaw. The keel-boat wasfrom fifty to seventy-

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