Chapter XIX: Widespread Exploring Parties

Gathering information--Lieutenant Grover to Bitter Root
valley--Lieutenant Mullan to Muscle Shell River--Lieutenant
Donelson to examine Cadotte's Pass--Mr. Lander to Marias
Pass--George W. Stevens describes outfitting war parties--Funds
fall short--Governor Stevens takes responsibility of incurring
deficiency--Starts to visit main Blackfoot camp--Chiefs join
the party--Culbertson's defense of Fort McKenzie--Death of
Rotten Belly--Reaches Marias River--Express brings report from
Lieutenant Saxton that mountains are impassable for wagons--
Returns to Fort Benton--Lander ordered back--Want of harmony in
his party--Stanley proceeds to Piegan camp--Lieutenants Saxton
and Grover meet on summit of Rocky Mountains--Tinkham returns
from Three Buttes and Marias River--Outfitting with pack
animals--Lieutenant Saxton, with Culbertson and twenty-eight
men, descends Missouri in keelboat--Doty stationed at Fort
Benton--Lander's insubordination curbed--Stanley returns with
thirty chiefs--Talk with Blackfeet--Their dress--Peace
advocated--Chief Low Horn--His good faith 364