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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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he Bear Paw Mountains, andcompelled its surrender after a desperate resistance, with severe losses onboth sides. The troops under the command of Col. Miles, in their operations duringthe years 1876 and 1877, marched no less than 4,000 miles, captured 1,600horses, ponies and mules, destroyed a large amount of camp equipage belong-ing to the hostiles, caused the surrender of numerous bands and cleared thecountry of upwards of seven thousand Indians. By this series of brilliantsuccesses not less than 400 miles of the Yellowstone Valley were opened tosettlement. Current Perries.—On the Yellowstone River, as well as on many otherWestern streams, a method of ferrying is in vogue which presents its pecu-liarities to Eastern eyes. The swift current is used as a motor for swinginga flat-bottomed ferry-boat over the river. An elevated wire cable isstretched from shore to shore. Pulleys, attached by stout ropes to eitherend of the boat, are geared to the cable. The craft is shoved off from the
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Yellowstone Division. 163 brink at an angle oblique to the current and starts languidly, the pulleysmoving spasmodically at first. Presently the full force of the tide is felt,and the pulleys spin along the cable, carrying the boat across at fine speed.Then, reaching the slacker water near the opposite shore, the pulleys re-sume the jerky progress on their cable track, and the boat grates upon thebeach or puts her broad nose gently upon the strand precisely where it iswanted. The steering is done by means of a wheel, or, rather, windlass,used to taughten or slacken the pulley ropes, and so get the proper angle ofresistance to the current. These ferry-boats scorn any suggestion of anordinary rudder in the water. They are guided by the guy-ropes only. Theferry-men levy a dollar toll upon each horse and each wagon, whichseems good pay for little labor. They lament, however, that the goodold times are gone when five dollars was the ordinary tax for thisservice. Fort Keogh—(81 miles from

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