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Название: Pathfinders of the West

Автор: Agnes C. Laut

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СКАЧАТЬ Great River named after him and then pushed across the Mountains to the Pacific, forever settling the Question of a Northwest Passage

       CHAPTER XI LEWIS AND CLARK

      The First White Men to ascend the Missouri to its Sources and descend the Columbia to the Pacific—Exciting Adventures on the Cañons of the Missouri, the Discovery of the Great Falls and the Yellowstone—Lewis' Escape from Hostiles

       APPENDIX

       INDEX

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

       Map of the Great Fur Country

       Three Rivers in 1757

       Map of the Iroquois Country in the Days of Radisson

       Albany from an Old Print

       The Battery, New York, in Radisson's Time

       Fort Amsterdam, from an ancient engraving executed in Holland

       One of the Earliest Maps of the Great Lakes

       Paddling past Hostiles

       Jogues, the Jesuit Missionary, who was tortured by the Mohawks

       Château de Ramezay, Montreal

       A Cree Brave, with the Wampum String

       An Old-time Buffalo Hunt on the Plains among the Sioux

       Father Marquette, from an old painting discovered in Montreal

       Voyageurs running the Rapids of the Ottawa River

       Montreal in 1760

       Château St. Louis, Quebec, 1669

       A Parley on the Plains

       Martello Tower of Refuge in Time of Indian Wars--Three Rivers

       Skin for Skin, Coat of Arms and Motto, Hudson's Bay Company

       Hudson's Bay Company Coins, made of Lead melted from Tea-chests at York Factory

       Hudson Bay Dog Trains laden with Furs arriving at Lower Fort Garry, Red River

       Indians and Hunters spurring to the Fight

       Fights at the Foothills of the Rockies, between Crows and Snakes

       Each Man landed with Pack on his Back and trotted away over Portages

       A Cree Indian of the Minnesota Borderlands

       A Group of Cree Indians

       The Soldiers marched out from Mount Royal for the Western Sea

       Traders' Boats running the Rapids of the Athabasca River

       The Ragged Sky-line of the Mountains

       Hungry Hall, 1870

       A Monarch of the Plains

       Fur Traders towed down the Saskatchewan in the Summer of 1900

       Tepees dotted the Valley

       An Eskimo Belle

       Samuel Hearne

       Eskimo using Double-bladed Paddle

       Eskimo Family, taken by Light of Midnight Sun

       Fort Garry, Winnipeg, a Century Ago

       Plan of Fort Prince of Wales, from Robson's drawing, 1733–1747

       Fort Prince of Wales

       Beaver Coin of the Hudson's Bay Company

       Alexander Mackenzie

       Eskimo trading his Pipe, carved from Walrus Tusk, for the Value of Three Beaver Skins

       Quill and Beadwork on Buckskin

       Fort William, Headquarters Northwest Company, Lake Superior

       Running a Rapid on Mackenzie River

       Slave Lake Indians

       Good Hope, Mackenzie River, Hudson's Bay Company Fort

       The Mouth of the Mackenzie by the Light of the Midnight Sun

       Captain Meriwether Lewis

       Captain William Clark

       Tracking up Stream

       Typical Mountain Trapper

       The Discovery of the Great Falls

       Fighting a Grizzly

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