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Down the Yellowstone

Chapter 19: Transcriber's note
By Lewis R. Freeman
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The narrator recounts attempts to boat from the river's headwaters toward the sea, describing early winter travel by ski and makeshift craft, mishaps in building and losing a vessel, and interruptions by work and sport that deferred the voyage. Vivid episodes of running rapids, improvised outfitting, and encounters with generous local people alternate with wry reflections on inexperience and travel mistakes. Later sections complete the long-delayed descent, record changing landscapes and riverside communities, and meditate on the lingering spirit of hospitality. The account blends adventure, practical detail, and humorous anecdote.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] In reading Clark's notes in the original it should be born in mind that they were written almost entirely in the third person. His spellings were often most originally phonetic, but not always conforming to one system. I have found three distinct spellings of mosquito in a single paragraph, and buffalo was often rendered "buffaloe" and "buffalow." L. R. F.

Transcriber's note

  • Spelling errors repaired:
    pg. 31 saffon → saffron
    pg. 64 grevious → grievous
    pg. 77 capenter → carpenter
    pg. 84 setting → sitting
    pg. 92 Bozeban → Bozeman
    pg. 135 transporation → transportation
    pg. 159 slighty → slightly
    pg. 171 he → be
    pg. 186 imparing → impairing
    pg. 186 side-urge → side-surge
    pg. 192 about → above
    pg. 196 by → my
    pg. 215 an → a
    pg. 239 Glendives → Glendive
    pg. 244 servicable → serviceable
    pg. 279 particulary → particularly

  • Other changes:
    Pg. 185: Removed duplicate "to" in " ... there appeared to be fairly open ...."
  • Spelling differences unchanged:
    Albemarle and Albermarle
    Drownded and drowned
  • Inconsistent hyphenations left as originally printed.
  • Paragraphs split by pictures were rejoined above the pictures.