Chapter XVII: Pike Lake to Fort Union

General course W. 10° N.--Lieutenant Grover surveys separate
route--Country within forty miles examined by side
trips--Route passes near Breckinridge, Jamestown, Minot, and
Great Northern Railroad nearly to Rocky Mountains--Crosses
Chippewa River--Camp regulations--Bois de Sioux--Description
of country--Red River hunters--Sheyenne River--Lander's
adventure--False alarm of Indians--Myriads of buffalo--The
hunt--Lake Jessie--Buffalo threaten camp; stop train--Horse
and mules go off with buffalo--Governor Stevens disabled--
Lander returns--Inveterate horse-killer--James River--Anxiety
at non-return of Tinkham--Guns fired--Parties sent back to
find him--Sioux reported approaching--Train arranged for
defense--Red River hunters--Tinkham returns safe--Governor
Wilkie and Red River hunters--Customs--Hunts--Government--Air
tainted by slaughtered buffalo--Maison du Chien--Coteau de
Missouri--Mouse River--More Red River hunters--Exchange
visits--Express dispatched to Fort Union--Assiniboine
Indians--Council--Distribution of presents--Arrives at Fort
Union 320

CHAPTER XVIII

FORT UNION TO FORT BENTON

Description of Fort Union--Alexander Culbertson--The
Blackfeet--Making peace--Surveys by side parties--Bugbear
stories--Moving westward--Blackfoot war party--Big Muddy--
Missouri bottom--Every one ordered to walk part way daily--
Milk River--Field order--Abundant game--Gros Ventres--Feast
and council--Feud with Blackfeet--Peace made between them--
Trading horses--Cypress Mountain--Stories of Indian
fights--Bear's Paw Mountains--Party sent to view them--Box
Elder Creek--The Three Buttes, favorite resort of Blackfeet--
Crosses Marias and Teton rivers--Scene of bloody Indian
conflict--Fort Benton--Fort Campbell 347