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Title: History of Oregon; the growth of an American state
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lyman, Horace Sumner, 1855-1904 Scott, Harvey W. (Harvey Whitefield), 1838-1910 Bellinger, Charles Byron, 1839-1905 Young, Frederick George, b. 1858
Subjects: Oregon -- History
Publisher: New York : North Pacific Pub. Soc.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s onlywere noticed, while the remnant of the people them-selves had moved westward to join the Kansas orOsage Indians. With these people, numbering stillsome 1,200 warriors, friendly relations were estab-lished, and their stores of corn and pumpkins wereliberally drawn upon. We notice with interest thatthe explorers spent time to learn the myth of theorigin of the tribe, which was from a snail, that grad-ually on a sunny bank ripened into a man, and afterreceiving his bow and arrow married the daughterof the beaver—that industrious animal being sacredfrom harm among the tribe until the price of beaverskins at last overbore the scruples of consanguinity;at the entrance of little Manitou Creek also they notethe figure of a man carved on the rock, l which mayrepresent some spirit, or deity. On the 26th of June the mouth of the Kansas, withits broad bottoms and not a little picturesque bluffsbeyond, was passed, and on July 4th a small streamwas named Independence Creek ; while the party
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MERIWETHER LEWIS AN AMEEICAN STATE 143 was obliged to work its way over bad sand bars, butwere pleased to see upon the shore great masses ofwild grapevines, giving promise of early fruit; andmany wild berries and blooming roses on the shore.From a mound near the mouth of the Nemaha, whichmembers of the party ascended, was seen a greatprospect, embracing the lowlands of the Missouri,covered with undulating grasses, now five feet tall;and thence gradually rising into a second plain,where rich weeds and flowers, interspersed withcopses of Osage plums, abounded; and grapes near-ly ripe were gathered with the enjoyment of boys ona Saturday picnic. On the 21st, still forcing theirway against the turbid Missouri in the boats, whichallowed time for the captains to walk along the shore,and the hunters to ramble the hills, and the twohorses to stray away at night and be caught up inthe morning, the party reached the mouth of thePlatte, a broad stream, the bed of which it fills withmoving sands

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