Identifier: bwhisofnwcoast28bancroft (find matches)
Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 2
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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irst to recognize Green River as the Colorado of the west, both ofwhich statements are untrue. Irving met Bonneville at the house of Astor,under whose table the genial writer loved to stretch his legs, and gather inci-dents for well paid panegyrics. Bonneville was born in France in 1795,graduated at West Point in 1815, fought through the Mexican war, was madecolonel of infantry in 1855, retired from active service in 1861, and died ageneral at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1878, the oldest officer in the UnitedStates army. Exceedingly lucky was Bonneville in finding so eloquent andamiable a biographer as Irving. BONNEVILLES ADVENTURES. 569 From Fort Osage on the Missouri River on the 1 stof May 1832, with one hundred and ten men andtwenty wagons, Bonneville set out on his adventures,in which he hoped to unite pleasure with profit. Toshoot buffalo was rare fun; but men were the noblergame, whom to search out in their retreat and slaughterand scalp was glorious. What were the far-off natives
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The Green River Country. of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless,reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman shouldbe permitted to kill them? This, however, was butparallel with the general conduct of the governmentthroughout the entire epoch of aboriginal extermina-tions, and which future ages will look back upon as 570 KELLEY, WYETH, AND BONNEVILLE. the foulest blot in the annals of the nation. The vilestagents were permitted to employ the vilest means; andthis French butcher finds anions* our first writers aman to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deedsas models for the young. Proceeding up the Missouri the party crossed theKansas, and over what subsequently became the regu-lar road, continued to the Platte River, and after twodaysjourney above the fork, crossed from the southto the north branch, thence up the Sweetwater, throughthe South Pass to Green River, on the Horse Creekbranch of which he planted his wagons and made hisgrand depot. Then he threw up a breastwor

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