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The River and I

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Night in Camp Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

"Off on the Perilous Floods" 6

Barriers Formed before Him 7

The Boats Wrecked in an Ice Gorge 7

After the Spring Break-Up 18

"Hole-in-the-Wall" Rock on the Upper Missouri 19

Palisades of the Upper Missouri 19

Great Falls from Cliff Above 30

Great Falls from the Front 31

"This was Benton" 52

Ruins of Old Fort Benton 52

The House of the Bourgeois 53

A Round-Up Outfit on the March 62

Joe 62

Montana Sheep 63

A Montana Wool-Freighter 63

The "Atom I" under Construction 74

The Cable Ferry Towed Us Out 74

Laid Up with a Broken Rudder 75

"Atom" Sailing Up-Stream in a Head Wind 86

Typical Rapids on Upper Missouri 87

Wolf Point, the First Town in 500 Miles 98

Entrance to the Bad Lands 99

Fresh Meat! 110

Supper! 111

"Walking" Boats over Shallows 126

Typical Upper Missouri River Reach 126

The Mouth of the James 127

Reveille! 142

The Pen and Key Ranch 143

Assiniboine Indian Chief 154

Assiniboine Indian Camp 155

On the Hurricane Deck of the "Expansion"; Capt. Marsh Third from the Left 166

Fort Union in 1837 167

Site of Old Fort Union 167

Boats Laid Up for the Winter at Washburn, N.D. 178

Washburn, N.D. 178

The Landing at Bismarck, N.D. 179

The Yankton Landing in the Old Days 192

"Atom II" Landing at Sioux City 193

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