History of Mercer County, North Dakota, 1882 to 1960

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2014
• Subjects: Canada; Chevalier; Indian; Lockwood; Mercer; Reine; Steamboat; assiniboine
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/16099

"BULLHEAD" (Ben Benson). "YELLOW BREAST," (Grosventre) wife of Bullhead. "HARD HORN" (Charles Blake). "SON OF THE STARS" (Jess D. Mason), whose wife is Lucy Sears (French), daughter of Louis Sears, a member of the crew of the steamboat, St. Peter. "JAMES HOLDING EAGLE," son of Sitting Crow, whose wife is "Katherine Malnorie" (East Woman), daughter of Malnorie, the trader. The Rees "PAT STAR" ("Omaha Chief") "RUNNING WOLF" "MRS. SKUNK HEAD" "STRIBEY HORN" ("Red Dog") "SHORT BEAR" "YOUNG SNAKE" "ENEMY HEART" "BOY CHIEF" "LITTLE SOLDIER" "ALEX SAGE" ("Big Knife") "ED LOCKWOOD" ("Feathered Arrow") "FRANK FOX" ("Crow Tail") "ALBERT GILLETTE" "REUBEN DUCKET" "PAT MALNORIE," son of Malnorie, the trader. "MILES HORN," (one of the actors in the motion picture, "The Oregon Trail"). The Grosventre "MEDICINE STONE" (as a young man he served as a government Indian scout in various campaigns against the Sioux). EXPLORERS The First White Man Some historians believe that the Spanish adventurers from Mexico were the first to come in contact with the Indians along the upper Missouri, but this belief is not supported by records. It is not improbable that Raddison and Groselliers met with some Indians of the Missouri during their explorations in the years 1654 to 1660, and undoubtedly we will some day find records of voyageurs having visited among them as early as 1700. The first authentic account we have of the white man's visit to these Indians is that of Chevalier- de la Verendrye, a French-Canadian explorer who visited the Assinoboines and Mandans as early as 1738. M. de la Verendrye Verendrye explored Canada and northern Dakota in the above year taking possession of the country in the name of the king of France. According to his journal, or diary, he left Ft. La Reine, (on the site of Portage la Prairie, west of Winnipeg, Manitoba), on Sept. 18th, 1738. He passed the first mountain (Pembina) on Sept. 21st, and a few days later passed the second mountain, (Turtle). On Nov. 18th he visited an Assiniboine village where they told him of the Mandans. He then arranged to go to the Mandan villages and the Assiniboines accompanied him, the latter sending runners ahead Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.