Identifier: notesofourtripac00unse (find matches)
Title: Notes of our trip across British Columbia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: Hamilton, Spectator Printing Co.
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the year round toour own smelting works, and secure their passage through Canadianterritory, instead of being smelted in Montana and carried throughUnited States territory as at present. Grossmans house is on the side of a hill overlooking theKootenay bottom, now an extensive prairie, his and cattle belongingto other ranchers feeding on it as far as the eye could reach. Wewalked up to the house, but found no one there. Mrs. Grossmancame soon afterwards; she had arrived from Kootenay. She is thefirst white woman we have seen since leaving Windermere. Wewere most hospitably welcomed, and after being treated to an excel-lent supper. Father Cocola, Willie, Gharlie, and I slept in ourblankets on the floor; we preferred this to putting up our tents, wewere so tired. After breakfasting in the morning we bid good-byeto Mrs. Grossman, with many thanks for her kindness. We gathered together on the bottom, before starting, FatherGocolas Indians and his horses, Willie, Gharlie and I with Gameron
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23 and our horses. Charlie prepared his camera to photograph thegroup, but owing to the accident, already alluded to, hehad no great confidence that the result would be satisfactory.We then started on our journey to Bonners Ferry, distantabout 24 miles. The trail runs on the prairie bottom, and we wereable to gallop along the plain. There are several trails and we unfor-tunately took the wrong one; we met a band of Indians who put usright, and we had to retrace our steps, losing 5 or 6 miles, which wasrather provoking. We followed the trail on the bottom until wereached the Ferry ; but before reaching it we found that the KootenayRiver was on our right; this puzzled us, as we had not crossed it sincewe passed the bridge over it at Fort Steel where we were landed onits right, and how we managed now to be on its left, without againcrossing it, was a mystery until we looked at the map; we then sawthat it had evidently made faster time than we had done; it flowedpast us on our left, reach

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