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CONTENTS. 
Pass.—Follows Governor Stevens’s trail to Fort Owen.—Crosses the Big Blackfoot River.—Reaches Cantonment 
Stevens. —Follows the Hell Gate and Little Blackfoot Valleys.—Arrives at Fort Benton.—Starts down the river to 
meet the Company's boats.—Returns to Fort Benton.—Is directed to proceed to Olympia.—Pursues his trail of 1853.— 
Crosses the Cœur 4” А1ёпе river.— Coeur d’Aléne Lake.—Peluse River.—Pyramid Butte.—Reaches Walla-Walla.— Crosses 
the Columbia.—Arrives at Olympia.—Mr. Doty’s reports concerning the Blackfoot Indians.—Loss of Meteorolo- 
gical Observations.—No hopes for their recovery.—Governor Stevens recommends to the War Department an 
instrumental survey of the Snoqualmoo Pass.—His labors as Indian Commissioner among the Indians west of the Cas- 
cades.—Mr. Doty makes arrangements to hold councils with those Indians.—Governor Stevens joins Mr. Doty at Camp 
Stevens on Mill Creek.— General Concluding Remarks of Governor Stevens.—A bstract of Lieut. Arnold's Report to the 
War Department.—His Itinerary.— Completes the Military Road across the mountains.—Steilacoom.—Nisqually 
Plains.—Puyallup River.—S'kamish River.—Mud Mountain.—Green River.—Peak La Téte.—Mount Ikes.—-View from 
its summit.— Nachess River.—Wenass Valley.—Yakima River.—Walla-Walla.—Table of Distances by the Odometer, 
fromWalla-Walla to Steilacoom, by Lieut. Arnold.—Foot Trail from Lake Kitchelus to the head of Snoqualmoo.— 
Character of the country.— Whole area of the Cascade Range. 
NARRATIVE OF 1855. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Walla- Walla to Bitter Root Valley. 
Circumstances of the exploration.—Walla-Walla Valley.—Touchet Valley.—Tukanon River.—Louis Maragné —Pyramid 
Butte.—Lawyer, Head Chief of the Nez Percés.—Divide separating Snake from Peluse River.—Kamas Fields.— Cœur 
d'Alene Mission.—Stevens’s Pass.—St. Regis de Borgia River.—lItinerary and minute description of route between Cœur 
d’ Alène Mission and Bitter Root Valley.—Chiefs of the Pend d'Oreilles and Flatheads.—Indian Treaties. 
CHAPTER ХП. 
Bitter Root Valley to Fort Benton, and Return to Olympia. 
Hell Gate Valley.—Mr. Pearson’s achievements as messenger.—Hell Gate Cafion.—Our Pend d'Oreille Guide’s success in 
hunting —Upper Blackfoot Valley.— The Prairie of the Knobs.—Salmon Trout Creek.— Belly Prairie —Lander's Fork.— 
Routes for a Railroad. —Lewis and Clark's Pass.—Dearborn Valley.— Heart Mountain.—Debouche of Dearborn River.— 
Grizzly Bear Lake.—Mauvaises Terres.—Fine Springs.—Teton Valley.—Box Elder Creek.—Interesting Incident with 
Indians at Fort Benton.—Mr. Doty's search for stolen horses.—Crosses Milk River —Lake Pah-ka-kee.—Belly River.— 
Bow River.—Returns to Fort Benton.— The Nez Percés and Flathead Camps.—Mr. Landsdale's examination of the 
Bitter Root Valley and of Flathead ross —The icm at the Mouth of the Judith.— Character of the surrounding 
Country.— Citadel Rock.—Mr. P. lympia.— His journey.—The Missouri towards Mouth of Marias.— 
Success of Blackfoot Treaty.—Return trip to Fort мака and the Pacific.—Intelligence arrives of the Indian War іп 
Oregon and Washington Territories.—Train halted.—Governor Stevens proceeds to Bitter Root Valley.—Mr. Doty 
returns to Fort Benton for supplies.—Fort Owen.—Hell Gate.—Alarming Reports.—Mr. Doty's arrival.—Crossing of 
Bitter Root Mountains.—Mr. Doty’s examination of approaches to Stevens’s Pass.—Meeting of Indians near Cœur 
d'Aléne Mission. —Cordial reception.— Wolfs Lodge.— Stormy Councils on the Spokane with Indians.—Final success.— 
Hostile intrigues of Looking-Glass, a Nez Percés Chief.—Arrival at Walla-Walla. 
