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the pirogues and canoes struggled up the Missouri on May 27th and
28th, 1805, the crew members noticed the hills getting steeper and
closer to the river. Sergeant Patrick Gass reported: "We have
now got into a country which presents little to our view, but scenes
of barrenness and desolation; and see no encouraging prospects that
it will terminate." Gass surmised that they had traveled about
two thousand three hundred miles from Ft DuBois, on the Wood River,
in Illinois (see the St Louis to St Charles section). Our canoes were
on this part of the Missouri on June 24th, 2009. We were not struggling
up, as Lewis reported; but easily floating down. |
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