Our
large fur trapper canoe, and two smaller ones, easily cruised through
this section of the Upper Missouri River. Coming from the opposite
direction, the Corps of Discovery experienced a very different river
in May, 1805. On the 28th,
Captain Lewis deplored the conditions: " We employed the towline
... [and] the pole at ripples and rocky points which we find ... numerous
and troublesome .... we are ... obliged to steer the canoes through
the points of sharp rocks rising a few inches above the surface of
the water...." Top right, the east
point of Council Island appears on the left going up stream. It got
its name for two important treaties, made in the area, with the Blackfeet,
Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce tribes in 1846 & 55. |
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