The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

of the afternoon, "this isn't any wilderness now. Look at the fi

," John replied to him. "People had been all through here. The Journal keeps

s Charette to-day, Unc

w just where we are. I'm only guessing, doing dead reckoning on our motor

Uncle Dick?

'll tell you i

gan to get anxious as the shadows fell along the deep, powerful river, but they had no s

e right is the Femme Osage. There were forty families settled there, s

s Daniel Boone! I've read about

in here and lived here till 1804. He died in 18

er the rocks, Rob-so! Now quic

" exclaimed Jesse. "Regu

Lucky to hit it so well and to find it still doing

re, finding the interior about twelve feet wide and running back for forty feet, with a height

glad we made it. This old cave was called the 'Tavern,' even before Le

ne hard days to do. They made only nine miles the last day, and fou

ng up any tent, but spreading it down on the floor of the cave. Their fire lit up the rocks in a wild and pict

Rob, poring over the Journal, "

says, 'Lyed corn and Grece will be issued, the next day Poark and flour, and the following, Indian meal and P

r appetite, we'll have to go after meat. Get out that throw line of yours and

ut his line, with a rock for sinker, while

n, "though a little hard for a

scratched or painted on the walls. Clark says the voyageurs and Indians we

the beds. A screech owl made a tremulous, eer

off the water, and before the cooking

fast right here! Call in the lyed corn and p

led Rob, "and cut him

oon the slices were

as venison, it's wild game, eh? And our way has always been

hen they went up this river, but they killed deer, turkeys, elk, buffalo,

and they killed game the year round. Now, about all w

ground'-a half mile that will try your motors, Rob. The big keel boat got in all sorts of trouble that day, whirling around, getting on bars, breaking her line an

or four hours that day, and Jesse, the boatman, spread his foresail to gain such added power as was possible. In this way they made very good time, so that by late evening they reached the mouth of the Gasconade, which comes in from the left from the hill country. T

en Fields got one the next day. And all the time, as you no doubt remember, we've been meeting

ing by right now! Pretty soon we pick up old man Dorion, coming dow

urk' the meat, the way Captain Clark

motors making the wooded shore echo again. They made their third encampment at the mouth of a stream

me as bad as the trenches in the Argonne. You fellows'll 'do me in,' as the British use

is and Clark needed was our boat and a few outboard kickers. It took them till June 7th, twe

e don't dare kill even a squirrel, though I'm sure we could get some

re of you. Besides, look at the big help the wind was to

thing is, we travel many times faster than they p

'll get through!" said

America, too. Jesse, take down your Flag from the bow staff-don

tent, on a wind-swept point. "I wonder if Cap

ered was lost, for