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Title: The fur traders of the Columbia river and the Rocky mountains
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 Olmsted, Frank Lincoln, ed
Subjects: Fur trade Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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his power, and approached the chiefof the band. It was Arapooish, whom we have alreadymentioned as being anxious to promote a friendly in-tercourse between his tribe and the white men. Hewas a tall, stout man, of good presence, and receivedthe voyagers very graciously. His people, too, throngedaround them, and were officiously attentive after theCrow fashion. One took a great fancy to Baptiste, theFlathead boy, and a still greater fancy to a ring on hisfinger, which he transposed to his own with surprisingdexterity, and then disappeared with a quick stepamong the crowd. Another was no less pleased with the Nez Perce lad,and nothing would do but he must exchange kniveswith him; drawing a new knife out of the Nez Percesscabbard, and putting an old one in its place. Anotherstepped up and replaced this old knife with one stillolder, and a third helped himself to knife, scabbard,and all. It was with much difficulty that Wyeth andhis companions extricated themselves from the clutches .^^^n
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MULTNOMAH FALLSFrom a photograph A Voyage in a Bull-Boat 191 of these ofiScious Crows, before they were entirely-plucked. In this way he was overhauled by several bands, andby the time he and his people came out of the busyhands of the last, they were eased of most of theirsuperfluities. Nothing, in all probability but theproximity of the American trading-post kept theseland pirates from making a good prize of the bull-boatand all its contents. The last band of Crow warriors had scarce disap-peared in the cloud of dust they had raised, when ourvoyagers arrived at the mouth of the river, and glidedinto the current of the Yellowstone. Turning downthis stream, they made for Fort Cass, which is situatedon the right bank, about three miles below the BigHorn. On the opposite side they beheld a party ofthirty-one savages, which they soon ascertained to beBlackfeet. The width of the river enabled them tokeep at a sufficient distance, and they soon landedat Fort Cass. This was a mere fortifica

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