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First Across the Continent

CHAPTER IX -- In the Solitudes of the Upper Missouri
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Modern geography has also taken from the good Sacajawea the honor of having her name bestowed on one of the branches of the Musselshell.

The stream once named for her is now known as Crooked Creek: it joins the river near its mouth, in the central portion of Montana.

The journal, under date of May 22, has this entry:-- "The river (the Missouri) continues about two hundred and fifty yards wide, with fewer sand-bars, and the current more gentle and regular.
Game is no longer in such abundance since leaving the Musselshell.

We have caught very few fish on this side of the Mandans, and these were the white catfish, of two to five pounds.

We killed a deer and a bear.
We have not seen in this quarter the black bear, common in the United States and on the lower parts of the Missouri, nor have we discerned any of their tracks.


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