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"On Leaving Us Yesterday He Pursued His Route Along The Foot
Of The Hills, Which Be Descended To The Distance
Of eight miles;
from these the wide plains watered by the Missouri and the Yellowstone
spread themselves before the eye,
Occasionally varied with the wood
of the banks, enlivened by the irregular windings of the two rivers,
and animated by vast herds of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope.
The confluence of the two rivers was concealed by the wood,
but the Yellowstone itself was only two miles distant, to the south.
He therefore descended the hills and camped on the bank of the river,
having killed, as he crossed the plain, four buffaloes; the deer alone
are shy and retire to the woods, but the elk, antelope, and buffalo
suffered him to approach them without alarm, and often followed him
quietly for some distance."
The famous water-course, first described by Lewis and Clark, was named
by them the Yellow Stone River. Earlier than this, however,
the French voyageurs had called the Upper Missouri the Riviere Jaune,
or Yellow River; but it is certain that the stream, which rises
in the Yellowstone National Park, was discovered and named by Lewis
and Clark. One of the party, Private Joseph Fields, was the first white
man who ever ascended the Yellowstone for any considerable distance.
Sent up the river by Captains Lewis and Clark, he travelled about eight miles,
and observed the currents and sand-bars. Leaving the mouth of the river,
the party went on their course along the Missouri.
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