Note 1 — Group I. THREE RIVAL CIVILIZATIONS. (continued 3)
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The Sources of the Missouri. About the time Mackenzie crossed the mountains (see chapter "Hudson's Bay to the Pacific"), an employee of the North-west Company, named Fidler, is reported to have gone from Fort Buckingham to the head of the Missouri. Traders from St. Louis ascended the river at this period, but how far is uncertain.