The Wonderful Black Hills (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Wonderful Black HillsAs we ascend, the sky steadily rises and broadens above us. Then the pink blush is evaporated by a luminous blue, and the world seems suddenly to have broken into color. We shoot a long, shrill whistle at a little white town at, the head of the canon, and slacken our pace. We have reached the Minnekahta (hot) Springs. We are at the threshold of the Hills.History dawned on these Hills only eighteen years ago. The first gleam of light came with the order sent General Custer by General Sheridan, then of the department of the Missouri, to organize an expedition at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, for' the pur pose of reconnoitering a route from that post to Bare Butte in the Black Hills, and exploring the country south, southeast, and southwest of that point, and to return within sixty days from the time of his departure from it.The numerous explorations into the great Northwest 'since the days of Lewis and Clark had confined themselves for the most part to the valley of the Missouri and its branches. The Canadian voyageur and other strange variants of the human species incident to the fur trade were, of course, acquainted with the plains beyond the river, and knew the mountains that shoot out of them like a rugged black island out of a yellow sea. But their career represents little more than a fascinating chapter in a long story of adventure. They left many pretty traditions, and a French name on the creeks where they had stopped and traded, then, as it were, the waters closed over their passage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.