Great Falls of the Missouri — Patrick Gass: June 15, 1805
The party navigated some of the most rapid water they had ever taken a craft through. At noon they halted at the mouth of Strawberry Creek on the south side, a handsome but small rapid stream. The point above it held abundant strawberry, gooseberry, and chokecherry bushes, along with small cottonwoods along the creek banks. In the afternoon they passed red bluffs on both sides of the river. By evening they reached a large rapid but, judging it too late to attempt it, camped below on the north side after 12 miles.
most rapid water, I ever saw any craft taken through. At
noon we stopped at the mouth of a creek on the South side
called Strawberry creek, a handsome rapid stream, but not
large. On a point above, there is a great quantity of straw-
berry, gooseberry and choak-cherry bushes ; and there appears
to be a good deal of small cotton-wood on the banks of this
creek. In the afternoon we passed red bluffs on both sides of
the river, and at night came to a large rapid which we did not
venture to pass so late; and therefore encamped below on the
north side, after going 12 miles.
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The water was the most rapid I ever saw any craft taken through. At noon we stopped at the mouth of a creek on the south side called Strawberry Creek, a handsome rapid stream, but not large. On a point above, there is a great quantity of strawberry, gooseberry, and chokecherry bushes; and there appears to be a good deal of small cottonwood on the banks of this creek.
In the afternoon we passed red bluffs on both sides of the river, and at night came to a large rapid which we did not venture to pass so late; and therefore camped below on the north side, after going 12 miles.
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