The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 54National Geographic Society, 1928 - Geography |
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Page 74
... took it like a duck . I felt su- preme faith now in my new boat . Afternoon came , and we passed Buckskin Jim's raft stranded on a bar . A few miles below , we saw a dead man , one of the three drowned the week be- fore at Livingston ...
... took it like a duck . I felt su- preme faith now in my new boat . Afternoon came , and we passed Buckskin Jim's raft stranded on a bar . A few miles below , we saw a dead man , one of the three drowned the week be- fore at Livingston ...
Page 83
... took no end of care to avoid them . There was rough running in my last hour in the gathering darkness . I missed the channel every few minutes , because the Yellowstone had run off and left me on a streak of wet rocks and gravel . With ...
... took no end of care to avoid them . There was rough running in my last hour in the gathering darkness . I missed the channel every few minutes , because the Yellowstone had run off and left me on a streak of wet rocks and gravel . With ...
Page 90
... took me within sight of whitecaps on Buffalo Rapids . Clark first named these rapids " Buffaloe Shoal " because he found a buffalo there . Buffaloe Shoal was the first of what one might call Clark's " menagerie series " of rapids . The ...
... took me within sight of whitecaps on Buffalo Rapids . Clark first named these rapids " Buffaloe Shoal " because he found a buffalo there . Buffaloe Shoal was the first of what one might call Clark's " menagerie series " of rapids . The ...
Page 95
... courtesy U. S. Army Engineers FROM THESE IMPOSING PALISADES ABOVE THE MOUTH OF THE GRAND , THE INDIANS OF SOUTH DAKOTA TOOK POT SHOTS AT STEAMERS PLYING THE MISSOURI IN EARLY DAYS Chauncey Yellow Robe , nephew of the wily Sitting Bull. 95.
... courtesy U. S. Army Engineers FROM THESE IMPOSING PALISADES ABOVE THE MOUTH OF THE GRAND , THE INDIANS OF SOUTH DAKOTA TOOK POT SHOTS AT STEAMERS PLYING THE MISSOURI IN EARLY DAYS Chauncey Yellow Robe , nephew of the wily Sitting Bull. 95.
Page 110
... took no rifle- sighting test , but after many mosquitoes had fallen into my frying - pan , I gave up the breakfast idea . Along here the river banks are a veri- table " Mosquito Coast . " Cattle nose - deep in water or rushing blindly ...
... took no rifle- sighting test , but after many mosquitoes had fallen into my frying - pan , I gave up the breakfast idea . Along here the river banks are a veri- table " Mosquito Coast . " Cattle nose - deep in water or rushing blindly ...
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