The River and I

by John G. Neihardt

ILLUSTRATIONS

• Night in Camp [Frontispiece]
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  FACING PAGE
• "Off on the Perilous Floods" [6]
• Barriers Formed before Him [7]
• The Boats Wrecked in an Ice Gorge [7]
• After the Spring Break-Up [18]
• "Hole-in-the-Wall" Rock on the Upper Missouri [19]
• Palisades of the Upper Missouri [19]
• Great Falls from Cliff Above [30]
• Great Falls from the Front [31]
• "This was Benton" [52]
• Ruins of Old Fort Benton [52]
• The House of the Bourgeois [53]
• A Round-Up Outfit on the March [62]
• Joe [62]
• Montana Sheep [63]
• A Montana Wool-Freighter [63]
• The "Atom I" under Construction [74]
• The Cable Ferry Towed Us Out [74]
• Laid Up with a Broken Rudder [75]
• "Atom" Sailing Up-Stream in a Head Wind [86]
• Typical Rapids on Upper Missouri [87]
• Wolf Point, the First Town in 500 Miles [98]
• Entrance to the Bad Lands [99]
• Fresh Meat! [110]
• Supper! [111]
• "Walking" Boats over Shallows [126]
• Typical Upper Missouri River Reach [126]
• The Mouth of the James [127]
• Reveille! [142]
• The Pen and Key Ranch [143]
• Assiniboine Indian Chief [154]
• Assiniboine Indian Camp [155]
• On the Hurricane Deck of the "Expansion"; Capt. Marsh Third from the Left [166]
• Fort Union in 1837 [167]
• Site of Old Fort Union [167]
• Boats Laid Up for the Winter at Washburn, N.D. [178]
• Washburn, N.D. [178]
• The Landing at Bismarck, N.D. [179]
• The Yankton Landing in the Old Days [192]
• "Atom II" Landing at Sioux City [193]

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THE RIVER AND I

CHAPTER I

THE RIVER OF AN UNWRITTEN EPIC