354 ITINERARY OF ROUTE FROM ST. PAUL TO FORT UNION. 



across which the wagons were hauled over by hand to Lake Henry a handsome, 



wooded lake; good wood and grass; water from small pond; not very good 



June 13. Passing over rolling prairies to a branch of Crow river, the channel of 



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which is only some twenty feet wide and four or five feet deep; but the water 

 makes back into the grass one hundred feet or more from the channel as cnrly in 

 the season as when crossed by the train ; goods boated over ; wagons by hand and 

 with ropes ; no wood on the stream ; several small lakes, not wooded, are on 

 either side of the trail, with many ducks, geese, and plovers on them; encamp at 

 Lightning lake, a small and pretty lake, sufficiently well-wooded on the borders 

 for camping purposes; good water, wood, and grass, and abounding with fish. . . . 



Junf, 20. Rolling prairie country, with small marshes and ponds, to a tributary 

 of South Branch ; swift running stream, gravelly bottom, fifteen feet wide, three 

 to four feet deep ; with care in selection, good crossing was obtained for the wagons ; 

 a wooded lake is a short distance to the right of trail ....................... 



Small rivulet, whose banks are marshy and soft .......................... 



Prairies, with small marshes and ponds, to a swift-running brook, six feet wide. . 



Prairie to Pike lake, and camp of Lieutenant G rover, a handsome lake of about 

 a mile in diameter, said. to abound in pike ; well wooded on its south border ; grass, 

 water, and wood, for camping, abundant and good ........................... 



Rolling prairie, with knolls ; several ponds and marshes with an intervening 

 brook about six feet wide, and rather difficult of passage, from the abruptness of its 

 banks, to a small brook, the outlet of a small and partially wooded lake or pond. . 



Rolling prairie, with grassy, swelling knolls, small ponds and marshes, to Chip 

 peway river ; camp of odometer wagon on edge of river ; water and grass good ; 

 no wood .............................................................. 



June 24. Crossed Chippeway river, one hundred and twenty-four feet wide, 

 three to six feet deep; goods boated over, and the animals swimming; wagon 

 hauled through the water by a rope attached to the tongue, and with the aid of 

 the mules; camped on Elk lake, a small and pretty lake, well wooded, and with 

 luxuriant grass ; good water .............................................. 



June 25. Trail passes over prairies with a rich, heavy grass about eighteen 

 inches high, winding between wooded lakes, to a heavy ravine, with a small and 

 sluggish rivulet in its bottom ; sides steep, and laborious for the wagon train ...... 



Prairie sloping towards the western branch of the Chippeway river a stream, 

 when crossed, about one hundred and forty feet wide, three or four feet deep, with 

 a marked current, and firm bottom ; no wood ............................... 



Camp on a small lake, fairly wooded, with luxuriant grass and good water ..... 



June 18. Over rolling prairie with small pools and marshes, to a swift running 

 stream, about twenty feet wide, three feet deep, a branch of Chippeway river; 

 heavily rolling ground, with stony knolls and granite boulders, to White Bear lake, 6J 

 a large, handsome lake, with mingled open and woodland ..................... -5 



Broken rolling ground to camp, a mile off the Red River trail, and near a small 

 wooded lake ; two small brooks have to be crossed in the interval, and being some 

 what deep and with abrupt sides, are troublesome crossings ; to where wagons left 

 trail .................................................................. (&amp;gt;i 



