Beyond the Mississippi : from the great river to the great ocean : life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific coast (1869)
Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869 · Hartford, Cn. : American Pub. Co. · leaf 533
Helena (passing around the Great Falls by a portage of ten miles) in fleets of Mackinaw flat-boats — accomplishing the distance to Omaha in about thirty days. Communication with the head waters of the Columbia is easy, the navigation of Pen d’Oreille lake and river greatly reducing the wagon… … fort in its palmy days, painted upon TWO-THOUSAND-DOLLAR NUGGET bed-ticking, by an unskilled employe of the American Fur Company, with such brushes and colors as he could obtain in the wilderness. On my return from Helena to Virginia the weather was in¬ tensely cold, with deep snow obstructing the…
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