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With Verdure Clad
It was a "pleasent and fair" day, on June 3, 1805, when the captains admired the countryside around the confluence of the Marias and Missouri Rivers. | Capt. C & myself stroled out to the top of the hights in the fork of these rivers from whence we had an extensive and most enchanting view; the country in every derection around us was one vast plain in which unnumerable herds of Buffalow were seen attended by their shepperds the wolves; the solatary antelope which now had their young were distribued over it's face; some herds of elk were also seen; the verdure perfectly cloathed the ground, to the South we saw a range of lofty mountains; . . . these were partially covered with snow. |
More than two hundred years later the view is still enchanting, although most days the air isn't nearly as clear as it once was, the verdure is a cash crop, and if there are any bovidae to be seen, they belong to the domestic variety. Those mountains are now known as the Highwoods, a small island range in central Montana that is nearly 100 miles east of the Rockies. --Joseph Mussulman
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