| 单词 | Little Missouri |
| 例句 | Roomy new cabins overlooking the Little Missouri River a short drive from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Our day took a wilder turn at Cottonwood Campground — named for the tall trees that line the nearby Little Missouri River — during an evening park program called “Biological Bad Boys.” Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z At its edges, the Badlands flatten into farm country, but their heart is the swaying, mixed-grass steppe of the Little Missouri National Grassland: more than a million acres of astonishingly beautiful, infernally punishing terrain. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The park, which is just a small slice of the Badlands, is surrounded by the Little Missouri National Grasslands, which is managed by the U.S. Oil drilling threatens solitude of national park 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z In June 2010, 20 campers, including eight children, died when the Little Missouri River rose more than 20 feet within hours. Why RVs are a risky place to be during severe weather 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The tribes bought the roughly 9,300-acre ranch that borders the reservation’s west side between Lake Sakakawea and the Little Missouri River in 1999, and converted it to a bison ranch. Three Affiliated Tribes get trust status for historic ranch 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The agency plans to start working on a new four-lane bridge to intersect the Little Missouri River south of Watford City this spring or summer. Historic Long X Bridge to be preserved on a Linton ranch 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Stripes of peach, cream and mud-brown earth and stone lined the curving banks of the Little Missouri River. Badlands and history in Theodore Roosevelt National Park 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The incident happened Saturday morning at the Little Missouri Inn and Suites. Several suffer breathing problems at Watford City hotel pool 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The Little Missouri Four gas plant will process 200 million cubic feet daily at an existing facility owned by Targa. $150M natural gas processing plant planned in North Dakota 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The encroachment of development is increasing on his land along the Little Missouri State Scenic River. Badlands landowner guards historic property from oil impact 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The Bismarck Tribune reports the Little Missouri State Scenic River is flowing by the Bully Pulpit Golf Course at a significantly below average rate as the region experiences extreme drought. North Dakota golf course endures driest season yet 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The spill dumped crude into a separate tributary of the Little Missouri River, but not the river itself. Oil pipeline spill pollutes North Dakota tributary 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z An unknown amount of oil flowed into Ash Coulee Creek, which feeds into the Little Missouri River, a tributary of the Missouri River. Feds retain many post-pipeline spill corrective actions 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z In the December spill, an unknown amount of oil flowed into Ash Coulee Creek, which feeds into the Little Missouri River, a tributary of the Missouri River. North Dakota oil spill 3 times larger than first estimated 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z An oil company that’s developing wells in the Little Missouri River Valley, NP Resources, is taking steps to minimize impact in the sensitive Badlands areas, said President Clayton Miller. Badlands landowner guards historic property from oil impact 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z An unknown amount of oil flowed into a creek feeding into the Little Missouri River, a tributary of the Missouri River. North Dakota oil spill 3 times larger than first estimated 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The Little Missouri is a tributary of the Missouri River. Oil pipeline spill pollutes North Dakota tributary 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A containment band has been set up in the Ash Coulee Creek, where the rest of the oil migrated, to keep it from entering the Little Missouri River. Crews recover 1,250 barrels of oil from North Dakota pipeline leak 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z They took photos at the park’s Wind Canyon Overlook, with the Little Missouri River in the background. Bismarck dancer photographed for book to benefit parks, arts 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The wells in the Little Missouri River area are assets NP acquired from Whiting Petroleum. Badlands landowner guards historic property from oil impact 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The coin depicts a young Roosevelt on horseback, surveying the terrain near the Little Missouri River. Theodore Roosevelt National Park quarter officially released 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Contemporary visitors can experience this windswept territory, due west of Bismarck, from their cars, on bicycle, on horseback, on foot or by canoe or kayak on the Little Missouri River. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In North Dakota, the pipeline would cross beneath the Little Missouri River once and the Missouri River twice. In North Dakota, people vs. oil pipeline protest strengthens 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z When thieves stole his riverboat, he chased them miles up the Little Missouri, captured them and brought them back for trial. Theodore Roosevelt’s Lessons for Today’s Politics 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The stamp shows a scenic image of the Little Missouri River winding through the park. Dedication set for Theodore Roosevelt National Park stamp 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Their young kids were playing along the Little Missouri River and over the riverbank found a broken five-gallon Red Wing crock. Couple to sell pottery collection at auction in Fargo 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Bismarck police say the body of 35-year-old suspect Kirk Kwasniewski was found near the entrance to Little Missouri State Park late Monday morning. Suspect in Bismarck homicide found dead in Dunn County 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The state’s two Little Missouri River parks each offer a unique experience. North Dakota parks capture state’s western bravado 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The pipeline’s path in North Dakota would cross beneath the Little Missouri River once and the Missouri River twice, near Williston and Mandan. ND regulators holding work session on proposed pipeline 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Forest Service is seeking public comments on the road system in the Little Missouri National Grasslands. Public input being sought for grasslands roads analysis 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The planned fires include one near the Painted Canyon Overlook as well as an area between the Longhorn Flats pullout and the Little Missouri River. Park service plans prescribed fires at Roosevelt park 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z As a boy in the 1950s, Mr. Schwalbe scampered up and down the steep banks of Corral Creek, which flows from Killdeer Mountain into the Little Missouri River. Where Oil and Politics Mix 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z She completed the research for her master’s degree in the park and the surrounding Little Missouri National Grasslands in 1982-83. Theodore Roosevelt Park superintendent to retire 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The rocks were found near Lost Bridge, a small bridge over the Little Missouri River in southwestern North Dakota, where Pagett used to camp with her late husband. North Dakota woman starts rock project post-flood 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z We circled around the southern end of the basin above Dickinson, then flew west and north above the willows in the ravines and coulees of the Little Missouri River. North Dakota Went Boom 2013-01-31T12:00:12Z Before six, in the evening, we reached 315 the mouth of the Teton River, or the Little Missouri, which the Sioux call the Bad River. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The mega-unit would include the Little Missouri State Park, a patchwork of private, state and federal land beloved for its rugged trails. Where Oil and Politics Mix 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z As much as 4.7 inches of rain fell in three hours in the upper Little Missouri River watershed. USGS: Floodwaters that killed 20 at Arkansas campground averaged 7 feet deep in floodplain 2011-11-02T17:51:05Z On the 13th of April they arrived at a small creek which entered the Missouri about 20 miles above the mouth of the Little Missouri. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z We had abundant water and grass, and here we rested two days, while our scouts felt their way out towards the Little Missouri. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z Here is a short example of Indian story-telling: Far out in the middle of the “Bad Lands” upon the Little Missouri, there stands a pillar-like butte some four or five hundred paces in height. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z The bighorn was killed in the fall of 1894, while I was camped on the Little Missouri, some ten miles below my ranch. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z At Albert Pike, the peak flow for the Little Missouri River was 40,100 cubic feet per second, the report said. USGS: Floodwaters that killed 20 at Arkansas campground averaged 7 feet deep in floodplain 2011-11-02T17:51:05Z At the mouth of the Little Missouri the three French hunters, who had ventured to follow the party, stopped for trapping, as they found beaver very plentiful. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z As we neared the Little Missouri the hills became higher, outcroppings of coal were to be seen along every mile. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z This division united with that under Major-General Steele on the Little Missouri river, after which they all moved on together against the rebels in the direction of the Red river. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z This great increase, following a great diminution, in the number of wolves along the Little Missouri is very curious. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The 2oth body was found floating in the Little Missouri River, which flows through the Ouachita National Forest where the campgrounds were set. One Person Still Missing After Flood 2010-06-14T16:09:00Z The news article in The Times includes wrenching firsthand descriptions of the nightmare scenario as the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers rose yards in minutes. Downpours + Steep Hills + Sleeping Campers = Horror 2010-06-12T14:13:00Z The rain ran off into the Little Missouri River in Montgomery and Pike Counties so quickly that the river west of Caddo Gap rose more than 20 feet overnight, from 3 feet to 23.5 feet. Flash Floods Sweep Through Arkansas Campgrounds 2010-06-11T22:46:00Z Heavy rains triggered flash flooding of the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers late Thursday and early Friday, Sadler said. At least 12 dead in Arkansas flood: state police 2010-06-11T16:12:00Z Around my ranch on the Little Missouri there have been several curious changes in the fauna. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z There was near my ranch on the Little Missouri, twenty-five years ago, a man who had this power. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Our only specimens were taken along the Little Missouri River, where thickets and small cottonwood trees were prevalent, and at the edge of a thicket in spring-fed Deer Draw of the Slim Buttes. Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota They were men of the trade, cowboys who had fought their employers’ battles from the Rio Grande to the Little Missouri. The Rustler of Wind River They travelled for twenty days in a south-westerly direction, through what were afterwards known as the Bad Lands of the Little Missouri, a country unlike anything they had ever seen before. Pathfinders of the Great Plains A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons Down through the Bad Lands the Little Missouri comes in long windings, white, from a distance, as a frozen river between the ash-gray hills. The Duke Of Chimney Butte They were the same animals which I and my fellow ranchmen hunted when, in the early eighties of the last century, our branded cattle were first driven to the Little Missouri. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Reports by local residents indicate that mink occur along the Little Missouri River as well as streams on the north side of the North Cave Hills. Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota On the twelfth, the voyagers reached the mouth of the Little Missouri, where they remained during the day, for the purpose of making celestial observations. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Time and again on the march to the Little Missouri and southward to the Hills he indulged me with some slight but unmistakable proof that he held me in esteem and grateful remembrance. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 In a bend of the Little Missouri, where it broadened out and took on the appearance of a consequential stream, Glendora lay, a lonely little village with a gray hill behind it. The Duke Of Chimney Butte This was done with skill and precision, but differed in no way from the work I used formerly to see and take part in on the Little Missouri. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open For two years Roosevelt remained in his ranch on the Little Missouri River, hunting, cow punching and engaging, heart and soul, in the free and strenuous life of the West. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. He was joyously young, like almost every one else in Little Missouri, except Maunders and Paddock and Captain Vine, having graduated from the University of Michigan only a year before. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands So he took himself to the West, to where the Little Missouri River flows in winding form through what are called the Bad Lands of North Dakota. American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt Crossing the Missouri, the line strikes directly west to the Little Missouri,—the Wah-Pa-Chan-Shoka,—the heavy-timbered river of the Indians, one hundred and thirty miles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The party set out on horseback, travelling swiftly southwest and along the valley of the Little Missouri toward the Black Hills. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark In the morning the train stopped at Little Missouri, where the passengers were refreshed with breakfast, then on again past Sentinel Butte, they left the boundaries of Dakota and entered the great territory of Montana. The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives Roosevelt was one of them, in the valley of the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Another favorite locality was the country lying between the Powder River and the Little Missouri, particularly the valleys of Beaver and O’Fallon Creeks. The Extermination of the American Bison To the west lay the barren lands of the Little Missouri, through which Sully pushed with his military expedition against the Sioux on the Yellowstone. The River and I We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. I knew Fred's patience and skill as a hunter from the trips we had taken together after deer and mountain sheep through the Bad Lands of the Little Missouri. The Rough Riders The Marquis arrived in Little Missouri with his father-in-law's millions at his back and a letter of introduction to Howard Eaton in his pocket. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands They go to the old man's beef ranch on the Little Missouri. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Late in the evening we reached the mouth of the Little Missouri. The River and I At six miles we came to at the lower side of the entrance of the Little Missouri, where we remained during the day for the purpose of making celestial observations. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. The headwaters of the Missouri were absolutely unknown; nobody had penetrated the great plains, the vast seas of grass through which the Platte, the Little Missouri, and the Yellowstone ran. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 For a time the trains stopped both at Medora and Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands You must be working a sorry outfit up on the Little Missouri," said he, "to lose ten per cent of straight steer cattle. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings In the Little Missouri Bad Lands there is so much mineral matter that no regular licks are needed. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Take as an example the country round the Little Missouri. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 From the Little Missouri on to the head of the Missouri proper the explorers passed through a region where they saw few traces of Indians. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 The Little Missouri and Powder River districts are the theater of his operations. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Forrest will follow Quirk with the last five herds of young steers, slated for the old man's beef ranch on the Little Missouri. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Tito knew what they were, and spurned them as usual; but finding more later, she gathered up three or four and crossed the Little Missouri toward the ranch-house. Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted Yet they certainly had as good a right to the Little Missouri country as the Sioux have to most of the land on their present reservations. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 This was probably in the "bad lands" of the Little Missouri, where these colored earths form a conspicuous feature in the bare and barren bluffs, carved into fantastic shapes by the storms. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Our friends west of us, at Little Missouri, are now being made happy by the presence among them of that rare bird, a political reformer. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands These animals were also more or less abundant along the Little Missouri River as late as the late '80's, and perhaps still later. American Big Game in Its Haunts The place selected for it was a dry sunny nook among the hills, half a mile west of the Little Missouri. Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted A golden eagle, whose spring specialty is for fawns, kids and lambs, was seen to swoop swiftly down toward a solitary antelope that had been noticed on a treeless range beside the Little Missouri. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The unrighteous spirit of this order the general wisely disregarded, but proceeded to Prospect Valley, and from there he pushed into the Valley of the Little Missouri. The Great Salt Lake Trail Meanwhile, Little Missouri and the "boomtown" were leading an existence which seemed to ricochet back and forth between Acadian simplicity and the livid sophistication of a mining-camp. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The Little Missouri country was a good sheep range, and also the broken country about Fort Laramie. American Big Game in Its Haunts In this, with their rifles, food enough for two weeks, warm bedding and thick clothes, Roosevelt, Sewall and Dow set out down the Little Missouri River. Theodore Roosevelt My own chief experience with buffaloes was obtained in the latter year, among small bands and scattered individuals, near my ranch on the Little Missouri; I have related it elsewhere. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches The round-up had reached a place called the ox-bow of the Little Missouri, and we had to ride there, do some work around the cattle, and ride back. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography But a sudden disaster had overtaken the Bastile one day when a man called Black Jack had come into Little Missouri on a wrecking train. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The names of new rivers came upon our maps; and beyond the first railroads we began to hear of the Yellowstone, the Powder, the Musselshell, the Tongue, the Big Horn, the Little Missouri. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West He had a boat in which he used to cross the Little Missouri to his herds on the other side. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography Yet the very next spring the cowboys with my own wagon on the Little Missouri round-up killed a mother bear which made but little more fight than a coyote. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches For example, our Little Missouri round-up generally worked down the river from a distance of some fifty or sixty miles above my ranch toward the Kildeer Mountains, about the same distance below. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Then with a derrick they hoisted Little Missouri's only depository for the helpless inebriate on the flatcar and departed westward. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands His bankers had unlimited confidence in his business ability; he had four Indian herds on the trail and three others of younger steers, intended for the Little Missouri ranch. The Outlet Here, on the twelfth of April, they were able to determine the exact course of the Little Missouri, a stream about which almost nothing was then known. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 With such packs I have had many a wildly exciting ride over the great grassy plains lying near the Little Missouri and the Knife and Heart Rivers. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches The first year I was on the Little Missouri some Sioux bucks ran off all the horses of a buffalo-hunter's outfit. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography For the Little Missouri Land and Stock Company, which was its only hope, was moribund, and the Marquis was playing, in a sense, with loaded dice. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands He suggested the Little Missouri as a good range, and told me of a hay ranch below the mouth of the Beaver. The Outlet They made eighty-six miles on the first day, passing the mouth of the Little Missouri early in the forenoon, and camping at Miry River, on the northeast side of the Missouri. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 To the Scotch family, exiled far up the Little Missouri, Roosevelt's visits were notable events. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands I was the delegate to it from the Little Missouri. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography For Johnny Nelson, so far as Little Missouri was concerned, was no more. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Bob will be in Little Missouri to-day and order us a car of sacked corn from Omaha, and within a month we'll be as snug as they are down in old Medina. The Outlet River, Little Missouri, to; Mouse, source of, 60; Yellowstone, 65. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 Four times that beast threw him, but the fifth time Roosevelt maneuvered him into a stretch of quicksand in the Little Missouri River. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands I first reached the Little Missouri on a Northern Pacific train about three in the morning of a cool September day in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography He was restless, and thought longingly of the valley of the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands A delightful fall favored us, and before the first squall of winter came on, the beeves had contented themselves as though they had been born on the Little Missouri. The Outlet The Assiniboins from the north had lately been on their spring hunting expeditions through this region,—just above the Little Missouri,—and game was scarce and shy. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 It bore the names of fifteen men along the Little Missouri whom Granville Stuart's committee had marked for punishment. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands I could dimly make out that the cattle immediately ahead and to one side of me were disappearing, and the next moment the horse and I went off a cut bank into the Little Missouri. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Henry Herbert Knibbs It was already plain that there were in fact two distinct groups along the valley of the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands As foreman of Lovell's beef ranch on the Little Missouri I spent five banner years of my life. The Outlet By the time Roosevelt left Little Missouri the end of September, the sheep were already beginning, one by one, to perish. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Little Missouri, meanwhile, was cultivating the air of one who is conscious of imminent greatness. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Not a ranchman up and down the Little Missouri lost less than half his herd. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Geography favored the criminal along the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Long before the train arrived which would carry us to Little Missouri, the opposition herds appeared and crossed the railroad west of town. The Outlet Thus it was that the Pyramid Park Hotel, where Roosevelt had spent his first night in Little Missouri, four years previous, came to Dickinson to become a most respectable one-family dwelling. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The older men and women I knew well; the younger ones had been wild tow-headed children when I lived and worked along the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands But the Marquis, who had prided himself on his judgment in Little Missouri in 1883, had not changed his spots in 1896. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands He had a reputation that extended from Mandan to Miles City for his ability to carry untold quantities of whiskey without showing signs of intoxication; but Little Missouri proved his undoing. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands To that long winter on the Little Missouri a relentless memory turns in retrospect. The Outlet He had a special torrent of obscenity for his team when they were making a difficult crossing somewhere on the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Then, one day, we suddenly heard a roar above that of the rushing water, coming from the direction of the Little Missouri, and hurrying there saw a sight, once seen, never to be forgotten. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands As chairman of the Little Missouri Stock Association, Roosevelt on one occasion recovered two horses which had been stolen from an old Indian. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands He had been one of the first to settle at Little Missouri, and for a while had lived in the open as a hunter. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands After honoring the village of Little Missouri with our presence for several hours, we saddled up and started to meet the cattle. The Outlet She had been in Medora less than a month when news came from Roosevelt that he was getting ready to start West and would arrive on the Little Missouri sometime about the middle of March. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Backed by Roosevelt, Joe Ferris had erected a two-story structure on the eastern bank and moved his store from Little Missouri to be an active rival of the Marquis's company store. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The day after the election, the Little Missouri Stock Association held its semi-annual meeting. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Little Missouri's leading citizens were a wild crew, but with all their violence and their villainy, they were picturesque beings, and were by no means devoid of redeeming traits. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Splann reported not over half a dozen sore-footed ones among them, having grazed the entire distance from Little Missouri, giving the tender cattle a good chance to recover. The Outlet In his capacity as chairman of the Little Missouri River Stockmen's Association, he was in a position to speak as Morrill's employer, and he spoke with his customary directness. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands It occurred to him that it would be the part of wisdom to conciliate Little Missouri's hostile population. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The better element in Little Missouri snorted in indignation and disgust, but for the moment there was nothing to be done about it. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands "Sheriff Cuskelly made a business trip to Little Missouri," is the gist of countless "Notes" in the Dickinson Press, "and reports everything as lively at the town on the Little Muddy." Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Well, gentlemen," said Dave, seating himself on the bar and leisurely rolling a cigarette, "that town of Little Missouri is about the dullest hole that I was ever water-bound in. The Outlet "Many is the man that's cleared that bend west of Little Missouri with bullets following his heels," said Merrifield, years after. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The "personals" that follow give a glimpse into the Little Missouri of which Roosevelt was a part during that third week of September, 1883. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands "On November 5th," the Dickinson Press announces, "the citizens of Little Missouri opened a school." Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Packard became fascinated with the tales he heard of Little Missouri and Medora and, being foot loose, drifted thither late in November. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands If you locate down on the Little Missouri, drop me a line where you are at, and if Lovell wants four good men, I can let him have them about the first of December. The Outlet The "town" of Little Missouri consisted of a group of primitive buildings scattered about the shack which did duty as a railroad station. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Roosevelt had said that he wanted to shoot buffalo while there were still buffalo left to shoot, and Gorringe had suggested that he go to Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands There had been talk early in 1883 of organizing Billings County in which Little Missouri was situated. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands But the forces of law were remote from Little Missouri, and Jake Maunders not only lived, but flourished. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Early in June a wagon was rigged out, extra men employed, and an outfit sent two hundred miles up the Little Missouri to attend the round-ups. The Outlet Stories he had heard of various bands of horse-thieves that operated in the region between the Little Missouri and the Black Hills likewise returned to mind to plague him. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The banks of the Little Missouri in those days of September, 1883, were no place for soft hands or faint hearts; and a place for women only who had the tough fiber of the men. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The landscape in which the ranch-house was set had none of the forbidding desolateness of sharp bluff and scarred ravine that characterized the region surrounding Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands For "Wannigan," like his fellow "desperado," Frank O'Donald, had returned long since to the valley of the Little Missouri and taken up again the activities which the Marquis had rudely interrupted. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands They avoided our range for fear of fever, and dropped in about fifteen miles below our headquarters on the Little Missouri. The Outlet He was, in fact, not a sight to awaken sympathy in the minds of such inhabitants as Little Missouri possessed. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands He was mildly famous in Little Missouri because he had delirium tremens, and now and then when he went on a rampage had to be lassoed. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The "depot" at Little Missouri did not boast a platform. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands It was a vein of soft lignite laid bare in the side of a clay bluff by the corrosive action of the water, carving, through the centuries, the bed of the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The herds crossed the railroad about a mile west of Little Missouri Station. The Outlet If Roosevelt met the Marquis during the week he spent in Little Missouri, that September, there is no record of that meeting. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands He finished his letter and decided to take it to the "depot" and ask the telegraph operator to mail it on the east-bound train that passed through Little Missouri at three. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands But Little Missouri, though she built ever so busily, in such a contest had not a chance in the world. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The weather was sultry, and as they crossed the high divide which separated the Little Missouri basin from the valley of the Little Beaver they saw ahead of them the towering portents of storm. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Our route, after skirting the Black Hills, followed up the Belle Fourche a few days, and early in August we crossed over to the Little Missouri River. The Outlet They came at last to a crossing where the sunset glowed bright in their faces along the bed of a shallow creek that emptied into the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands If he actually did possess such a weakness, Little Missouri and the boom town were fully able to satisfy it. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands "Little Missouri was a terrible place," remarked, years after, a man who had had occasion to study it. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Montana had such an organization in the Montana Live Stock Association and more than one ranchman with large interests in the valley of the Little Missouri had appealed to that body for help. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The divide between the Belle Fourche and the latter stream was a narrow one, requiring little time to graze across it, and intercepting the Little Missouri somewhere in Montana. The Outlet This was not unnatural, for Frank was the social center of Little Missouri and was immensely popular. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Ferris had a brother Sylvane, who was living with his partner, A. W. Merrifield, in a cabin seven or eight miles south of Little Missouri, and suggested that they spend the night with him. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Frank himself was less of a buccaneer and was conspicuous because he was practically the only man in Little Missouri who did not carry arms. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Who the men were whose names were on that list is a secret which those who held it never revealed and inquisitive minds along the Little Missouri could never definitely solve. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Two days later Forrest veered off and turned his cattle loose below the junction of the Beaver with the Little Missouri. The Outlet They left Lang's at six, crossing the Little Missouri and threading their way, mile after mile, eastward through narrow defiles and along tortuous divides. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands A man named Wadsworth from Minnesota settled twenty miles down the river from Little Missouri; another named Simpson from Texas established the "Hash-Knife" brand sixty or seventy miles above. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Game-butchers swarmed forth from Little Missouri and fifty other frontier "towns," slaughtering buffalo for their skins or for their tongues or for the mere lust of killing. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Accordingly Roosevelt decided to drive the animals down along the divide west of Medora between the Little Missouri and the Beaver. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands There was only one other boat on the Little Missouri, and that was a small flat-bottom scow owned by three hard characters who lived in a shack twenty miles above Elkhorn. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands One instant he was aware that the cattle in front of him and beside him were disappearing; the next, he himself was plunging over a cutbank into the Little Missouri. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands "De Mores," said Lincoln Lang, "seemed to think that some sort of divine right reposed in him to absorb the entire Little Missouri country and everything in it." Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Mores, Marquis de, 25; arrival at Little Missouri, 58-60; his views, 60, 61; and the Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car Co., Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Ten thousand wash-outs, a dozen feet deep or thirty, ran "bank-high" with swirling, merciless waters, and the Little Missouri, which was a shallow trickle in August, was a torrent in April. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Little Missouri Land and Stock Co., the, 20, 61, 77. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands |
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