Identifier: ourcountryinstor00fran (find matches)
Title: Our country in story
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
Subjects: United States -- History America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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her words the Nez Perces welcomed thetired and hungry strangers and gave them food. The cap-tains told the Nez Perces of their great Father at Wash-ington and made them presents of medals and showyclothes. The Indians were much pleased. Even to thisday the Nez Perces tell the story of how the dying Indianmaiden had made them the friends of the white men. Beyond the mouth of the Clearwater River, the Snakewas navigable. The captains and their companions conse-quently spent the early days of October in preparing forthe descent of the river. Canoes were made by hollowing WEST TO THE PACIFIC 293 out tree trunks. The saddles and some powder wereburied. The horses were branded and given into the careof the Nez Perces. Then the party set out in the newboats on their voyage to the sea. With joyful hearts the young explorers sped throughwild and interesting regions. At length, on the sixteenthof October, they passed from the waters of the SnakeRiver into the wide, blue current of the Columbia.
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NEZ PEKCES INDIANS With happy hearts they pitched their tents on the banksof the Great River for a short rest. Soon the sound ofdrums and shouting voices was heard, and a processionof about two hundred Indians came marching towardcamp. Gathered in a semicircle around the white menthey bade them a hearty welcome. A chief of the NezPerces had brought these redmen the last words of thedying Indian girl—Do not fear the white men. Be kind tothem. In this way the explorers were introduced fromtribe to tribe all the way down the Columbia. 294 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY PART Six. DOWN THE COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC It seemed as though all the Indians of the Far Westhad flocked to the banks of the Columbia even as the sav-ages of the Middle West had at one time come down uponthe frontier stations of Kentucky. But the Indians of theColumbia were peaceable. They had come hither for thesalmon fishing. Whole schools of the fish could be seenlying twenty feet deep down in the clear, crystal-likewater. The

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