South Pass: differenze tra le versioni

Versione delle 16:42, 1 lug 2019

Versione delle 22:18, 25 dic 2019

Riga 37:

''"In 1811, the overland party of [[John Jacob Astor I|Mr. Astor's]] expedition, under the command of Mr. [[Wilson P. Hunt]], of [[Trenton, New Jersey]], although numbering sixty well armed men, found the Indians so very troublesome in the country of the [[Yellowstone River]], that the party of seven persons who left Astoria toward the end of June, 1812, considering it dangerous to pass again by the route of 1811, turned toward the southeast as soon as they had crossed the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and, after several days' journey, came through the celebrated 'South Pass' in the month of November, 1812.''

''Pursuing from thence an easterly course, they fell upon the [[Platte River|River Platte]] of the Missouri, where they passed the winter and reached [[Saint Louis (Missouri)|St. Louis]] in April, 1813.''

''The seven persons forming the party were Robert McClelland of Hagerstown, who, with the celebrated Captain Wells, was captain of spies under General Wayne in his famous Indian campaign, Joseph Miller of Baltimore, for several years an officer of the U. S. Army, Robert Stuart, a citizen of Detroit, Benjamin Jones, of Missouri, who acted as huntsman of the party, Francois LeClaire, a halfbreed, and André Valée, a Canadian voyageur, and Ramsay Crooks, who is the only survivor of this small band of adventurers."''