Middle Missouri to the Assiniboine River

After Wood and Thiessen¹

arocque left the Assiniboine River on June 2, 1805, arriving at the Knife River villages on June 12. In the company of a band of Crow Indians he reached the Yellowstone River near present-day Billings, Montana, on September 10. He returned to the Knife River Villages via Yellowstone and the Missouri on October 9, and was back at Fort Assiniboine at the mouth of the Souris on October 27. The entire trip, covering more than 1,300 miles, lasted over four and one-half months.

--Joseph Mussulman

1. W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen, eds., Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738–1818 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), p. 161.