Great Falls of the Missouri — Patrick Gass: June 15, 1805

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.