This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... ON DIVERGING LINES. ON the south bank of the Missouri, nine miles north of where the Cannonball river joins that great Continental artery, terminate the range of isolated and uneven highlands now generally termed the Little Heart ridge. If the Gros Ventre Indians can bring forth plain truth from their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... ON DIVERGING LINES. ON the south bank of the Missouri, nine miles north of where the Cannonball river joins that great Continental artery, terminate the range of isolated and uneven highlands now generally termed the Little Heart ridge. If the Gros Ventre Indians can bring forth plain truth from their legend of the summit of these upheaved crags, it was here one fifth of the remnant of that tribe rested and were saved from the destruction that overwhelmed so many of their people several hundred years ago, when the floodgates from the ice bound Arctic seas were unloosened and a deluge of waters poured down the Saskatchewan depression, and submerged all but the extreme high points of land, only decreasing in depth as the waters spread out on the wide southern plains on its destructive path to join the tepid stream in the Mexican gulf. About one mile south of this ridge can be seen a few isolated bluffs for the most part bare of vegetation, and on their topmost peaks, round openings, that at the distance of the bluffs base, to an ordinary eye, seem portholes from a frowning fonress. In these cones, as early as the opening days of this century, the first intrepid explorers of the now dominent race, saw flying hither and thither from these apertures the proudest birds in all this land--the war eagle of the wild Indians. Across the Missouri, and northeast of these described lands, but some miles away was a body of water known to the native Sioux as "Mde Hanska" or the Long Lake. Apart from its shape-- long and narrow--the lake had no significance, except that its boggy shores sheltered broods of wild fowl, and its location a convenient camping place for hunters of the antelope. In the order of marking time--being then the. month of July....
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