ISBN: 9781104792848

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: flank movement, overtook, at the Bear Paw Mountains, a large party of Nez Perces, under Chief Joseph, on their way from Idaho to join Sitting Bull in Canada, and compelled their surrender, with some losses on both sides. The year 1878 was occupied with completing Fort Keogh, and in opening roads and Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: flank movement, overtook, at the Bear Paw Mountains, a large party of Nez Perces, under Chief Joseph, on their way from Idaho to join Sitting Bull in Canada, and compelled their surrender, with some losses on both sides. The year 1878 was occupied with completing Fort Keogh, and in opening roads and building telegraph lines, until September 4th, when Col. Miles defeated a force of Bannocks who were seeking to force their way from Idaho to the buffalo grounds in Montana. In 1879 Col. Miles made a reconnoissance in force north of the Missouri, and broke up for the time the illicit traffic in arms and ammunition by which the northern hostiles are kept supplied through the agency of a large party of Red River Half-breeds. CHAPTER III. SETTLEMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE VALLEY. An exhaustive description of the topographical features of the Yellowstone Valley would require more space than is available for that purpose in this volume. The following brief summary of the subject, however, will give the reader a general conception of the character of the country, and of the progress of settlement along the river. The readiest route in every respect for entering the Valley is the eastern one, which insurer railroad travel to the Missouri River, and until the railroad reaches the Yellowstone, water transportation the remainder of the way. The traveller at St. Paul taking the trains on the Northern Pacific Railroad which leave morning and evening, finds himselftwenty-four hours later at Bismarck, a town in Dakota, on the Missouri River. He has travelled in that interval 471 miles, which have been comfortably passed in elegant sleeping cars and day coaches, and have led him through the greatest wheat raising country of America, crossing 100 miles of the fertile valley of the Red River of Books, Literary Collections~~General, Yellowstone-Valley~~Thomson-P-Mcelrath, 999999999, The Yellowstone Valley, Thomson P. Mcelrath, 1104792842, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

1880, ISBN: 9781104792848

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1880, ISBN: 9781104792848

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