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Antelope River, ^ a very small creek on the west side. 

 We saw two Wolves crossing the river, and Harris shot 

 a Lark Finch. We have now no difficulties before us, 

 and hope to reach Fort Pierre very early to morrow 

 morning. 



Fort Pierre} May 31, Wednesday. A.fter many difficul- 

 ties we reached this place at four o'clock this afternoon, 

 having spent the whole previous part of the day, say since 

 half-past three this morning, in coming against the innu- 

 merable bars — only nine miles ! I forgot to say last 

 evening, that where we landed for the night our captain 

 caught a fine specimen of Neoi'^ma floridana, a female. 

 We were forced to come-to about a quarter of a mile 

 above Fort Pierre, after having passed the steamer " Trap- 

 per " of our Company. Bell, Squires, and myself walked 

 to the Fort as soon as possible, and found Mr. Picotte and 

 Mr. Chardon there. More kindness from strangers I have 

 seldom received, I was presented with the largest pair 

 of Elk horns I ever saw, and also a skin of the animal 

 itself, most beautifully prepared, which I hope to give to 



1 Or Antelope Creek, then as now the name of the small stream which 

 falls into the Missouri on the right bank, about lo miles below the mouth of 

 the Teton. It has also been known as Cabri Creek, Katota Tokah, and High- 

 water Creek, the latter being the designation originally bestowed by Lewis 

 and Clark, Sept. 24, 1804. It runs in Presho Co., S. Dak. — E, C. 



2 The old fort of this name was three miles above the mouth of the Teton 

 River ; this was abandoned, and another fort built, higher up, on the west 

 bank of the Missouri. The Prince of Wied reached this fort on the fifty- 

 first day of his voyage up the Missouri, and Audubon on the thirty-third 

 of his ; a gain in time which may possibly be attributed both to better 

 weather and to the improvement in steamboats during ten years. The 

 Prince says : " Fort Pierre is one of the most considerable settlements of the 

 Fur Company on the Missouri, and forms a large quadrangle surrounded by 

 pickets. Seven thousand buffalo skins and other furs were put on board our 

 boat to take to TSt. Louis. . . . The leather tents of the Sioux Indians, the 

 most distinguished being that of the old interpreter, Dorion (or Durion), a 

 half Sioux, who is mentioned by many travellers, and resides here with his 

 Indian family. His tent was large, and painted red ; at the top of the 

 poles composing the frame, several scalps hung." ("Travels in North 

 America," p. 156, Maximilian, Prince of Wied.) 



