ng some business to attend to. He left the three boys in their room at a

iet on this tri

nted to start in killing buffalo, but there were no buffalo so close to the river even then. All our hunters got was deer; they lay here a couple of days and got plen

t hunters, had a fat bear and a deer, too. And Lewis kil

ts' if I could kill a deer or so,"

k at us, then. See here,

ering and feeding on the young willow, Several killed to-day.... The Praries come within a Short distance of the river on each Side, which contains in addition to Plumbs

deer liked willow

th, when the grass was up. I've even known some natural

these Prairies and the Plains came big river valleys that led out West toward the Rockies. If all that had been hills and timber, no road ever woul

d Independence, which now is Kansas City. Not much

ood real-estat

? a mile up, below the Kanses the hills is about 1-? Miles from the point on the North Side of the Missourie the Hills or high lands is Several Miles

t beginnings of the city were right then, for the Journal says, 'Completed a strong redoubt or brestwork from one sid

ding to the Santa Fe Trail-and I'll bet there's a thousand motor cars going west rig

Maybe that's what Uncle Dick wante

d Jesse; and both J

le later in the evening, the boys

egraphed home that we're all right and that

ld road to the Ro

atte Valley led out the men with plows on their wagons, the home makers who st

ood job they h

y did the job, son, as y

se had been making from day to day. "Hah!" said he. "Here's t

as at the mouth of the Platte, for they serve that valley with a new kind of transportat

is described as heading 'with the river Del Noird in the black Mountain or ridge which Divides the Waters of t

, all of you," he concluded; an

ne cans filled and most of the heavy supplies aboard. By eight-thirty they were chugging away again up th

d not make much of a success, owing to the t

Jesse explained. "I was trying to write how th

out John, who had the Journal on a box top near by. "'They are

ffalo yet,

und Council Bluffs-then we'

n here. They celebrated the day by doing fifteen miles-closing the day by another 'Descharge from our

But from now on they certainly did get plenty of game-all kinds of it, bears, deer, elk, beaver, venison, buffalo, turkeys, geese, grouse, and fish. You see, Jesse, they got some of

ey called 'goat,' and described very carefully. They sent President Jefferson the first antelope ever seen east of the Alleghanies. Then they got into

k. "But while we are comparing notes we might just as well remember th

wind changed, coming down the river in squalls which tore up the

o had begun to pull the tarpaulin over the cargo. "

d struck a sand bar and plowed into it. Caught by the wind, the bow of the boat swung aro