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Captains Lewis and Clark Were Much Puzzled at This Point to Know Which of the Rivers Before Them Was the Main Missouri Frontispiece
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“I Now Resigned Myself to the Fate with Which I Was Menaced” 28
A Man of the Naudowessie From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, by Jonathan Carver 62
A Man of the Ottigaumies From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, by Jonathan Carver 62
Alexander Mackenzie From Mackenzie’s Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America, etc. 84
Mackenzie and the Men Jumped Overboard 118
Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Monument at Colorado Springs, Colorado 208
Buffalo on the Southern Plains From Kendall’s Narrative of the Texas Santa Fé Expedition 236
Two Men Mounted on Her Back, but She Was as Active with This Load as Before 270
Fur Traders of the North 280
Astoria in 1813 From Franchere’s Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America 302
Caravan on the March From Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies 334
Wagons Parked for the Night From Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies 340
Trappers Attacked by Indians From an old print by A. Tait 360
Train Stampeded by Wild Horses From Bartlett’s Texas, New Mexico, California, etc. 372
Major-General John C. Fremont 394
An Oto Council From James’s An Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains by Major Stephen H. Long. 414
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Routes of Some of the Pathfinders 2
TRAILS OF THE PATHFINDERS
ROUTES OF SOME OF THE PATHFINDERS