OR,

A TOUR BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS.

EMBRACING

OUTLINES OF WESTERN LIFE AND SCENERY; SKETCHES OF

THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY
SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC.

"If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to
be a competent judge."-IZAAK WALTON.

"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ''Tis all
barren.'"-STERNE.

"Chacun à son stile; le mien, comme vous voyez, n'est pas laconique."--
ME. DE SEVIGNE.

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,

NO. 82 CLIFF STREET.

1838.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUN 30 1915

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS

MEMORIAL COLLECTION

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[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]

CONTENTS.

XXIII.

View of St. Charles and the Missouri.-The Bluffs.-"A stern

round Tower."-Its Origin.-The Windmill.-A sunset Stroll.

-Rural Sights and Sounds.-The River and Forest.-The

Duellist's Grave.-The Hour and Scene.-Requiescat.-Re-

flections.-Duelling.—A sad Event.—Young B——.—His Re-

quest.-His Monument." Blood Island."- Its Scenes and

Annals. A Visit to "Les Mamelles."-The Forest-path.-Its

Obscurity.-Outlines of the Bluffs.-Derivation of Name.-Po-

sition.-Resemblance.-The Missouri Bluffs.-View from the

Mamelles.-The Missouri Bottom.-The Mamelle Prairie.-

The distant Cliffs and Confluences.-Extent of Plain.—Al-

luvial Origin.-Lakes.-Bed of the Rivers.-An ancient De-

posite
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XXIV.

St. Charles.-Its Origin.-Peculiarities.-Early Name.-Spanish
Rule. Heterogeneous Population.-Germans.-The Wizard
Spell.-American Enterprise.-Site of the Village.-Prospects.
-The Baltimore Settlement.-Catholic Religion and Institu-
tions.-"St. Charles College."-The Race of Hunters.-A
Specimen.-The Buffalo.—Indian Atrocities.—The “ Rangers.”
-Daniel Boone.-"Too Crowded !"-The "Regulators."
Boone's Lick.-His Decease.-His Memory.-The Missouri
Indians. The Stoccade Fort.-Adventure of a Naturalist.-
Route from St. Charles.-A Prairie without a Path.-Enormous
Vegetation. The Cliffs.-The Column of Smoke.-Perplexity.
-A delightful Scene.-A rare Flower.-The Prairie Flora in
Spring. In Summer. In Autumn. The Traveller loiters

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