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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.
Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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