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In writing to 
birds in a field to one side, as the wagon 
passed along. 
One of the most amusing retrieving 
performances I have witnessed was of 
a dog retrieving, unbidden, the moulder- 
ing bones of a dead quail. In his travels 
through the sedge fields he found these 
bones, where some hunter had killed 
a bird, and did not find it, so he care- 
fully gathered up the bones and brought 
them to his master. I have seen this 
dog bring in many grouse that other 
hunters than his master had killed or 
wounded and never found. 
Did you ever notice in winter, when 
the snow is on, how a grouse dog, on 
seeing cold grouse tracks in the snow, 
takes long sniffs of these tracks, to see 
if he could not work out and locate the 
birds? I mention this to show that 
dogs know the tracks of their favorite 
game by sight, as fox and rabbit 

hunters will tell you. 
Here is a circumstance illustrating 
the workings of a dog’s mind. Any 
good bird dog will occasionally catch a 
bird alive. I was hunting on a hill top 
with a friend and the dog pointed, the 
bird lying very close to him, and when 
it flushed right under his nose, he made 
a grab for it and caught it. He was a 
fine, soft-mouthed and prompt retriever, 
but he did not come in with this bird— 
you see the bird did not fall to the gun, 
but came to him in an unusual way, 
as it would be on a self-hunting trip and 
he actually thought that bird was his 
and not mine and he ran away down 
the hill and I let him go, eager to see 
his plan. He looked about among some 
fallen logs for a place to bury it and I 
gave him the whistle and he came in 
and sat up and delivered the bird, look- 
ing very crestfallen over the incident. 
These are some of the little incidents 
that have pleased me with the dogs and 
have increased my love and respect for 
them and make me miss the old friends 
when they have gone. 
Verendrye National Monument 
HE significance of this National 
Monument, established in 1917, is 
that it marks the spot on the left bank 
of the upper Missouri River where the 
celebrated French explorer Verendrye 
and his sons camped during their ex- 
plorations in 1738, more than 60 years 
prior to the expedition of Lewis and 
Clark. It is associated with the first 
explorations of North Dakota and the 
interior of the Northwest. The records 
of their journeys are the subject of con- 
flicting interpretations, but there is no 
question that the Verendrye party was 
the first to enter North Dakota and to 
look upon the upper Missouri. Thus it 
is that picturesque Crowhigh Butte, 
rising 565 feet above the river on its 
left bank and the central feature of 
the Monument, is one of the most im- 
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portant landmarks associated with the 
Verendrye explorations. 
Starting from his trading post on the 
Assinniboine River, Fort La Reine, the 
site of the present city of Portage la 
Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, the elder 
Verendrye and his sons started on an 
overland journey to reach the western 
sea. Going southwest to Turtle Moun- 
tains and continuing, the party arrived 
in December at an Indian village on 
the bank of the Missouri, the residents 
of which he called the Mantannes. 
Near the site of the old village, now 
believed in midstream of the Missouri 
which has snifted its bed, is the town 
of Sanish, North Dakota. This was 
the terminus of the 1738 journey as the 
whole party returned to Fort La Reine 
the following February. It was, how- 
ever, the first recorded visit of white 
men in North Dakota. 
In 1742 two sons of Verendrye led 
another exploring expedition, leaving 
Fort La Reine in April and reaching 
the Indian village on the Missouri in 
less than a month. Here they remained 
for two months before crossing. Jour- 
neying westward and southwestward 
between the Yellowstone and Little 
Missouri Rivers, they were finally 
turned back by a range of mountains 
which in all probability was the Big 
Horn Range of the Rocky Mountains in 
northern Wyoming. Their return has 
resulted in conflicting interpretations of 
the route followed, but they reached the 
Mantanne village in May, 1748, re- 
joining their father at Fort La Reine 
on July 2. Like La Salle’s imperial 
dream of French colonization, Veren- 
drye planned and partly completed a 
fur trade empire of continental di- 
mensions but like La Salle’s it crumbled 
away to nothing. But Verendrye’s 
journeyings, his discoveries, his plans 
and failures have an abiding place in 
western history. 
Old Crossing at the Mantanne village 
became one of the most important fords 
of the Missouri and a highway of ex- 
ploration and early trade. The monu- 
ment lands were formerly included in 
the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 
the eastern part of which was opened 
to settlement in 1911. Payment for 
the lands included in the Monument 
was made in 1921 when Congress 
appropriated funds to reimburse the 
Indians. The State Historical Society 
of North Dakota was largely instru- 
mental in having the Monument estab- 
lished to commemorate the Verendrye 
expedition to the upper Missouri. The 
new and growing town of Sanish, 
which adjoins the Monument, is the 
teminus of a branch line of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and Sault Ste. Marie Rail- 
road. Sanish may be reached by 
motorists from the Theodore Roosevelt 
International Highway crossing the 
northern part of the State. 
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