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Excerpt from Mammals of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming
Francois and louis-joseph Veren drye, two French explorers, entered the Black Hills in early February of 1743; they were probably the first white men to penetrate the region. Although Meri wether Lewis and William Clark did not enter the Hills proper, a French trader, Valle, encountered the explorers near the mouth of the Cheyenne River and told them of the Black Mountains to the west. Having received similar re ports while camped at the mouth of the Bad River in 1833, Prince Maximillian termed this pine-clad range the Black Hills (thwaites, He also in cluded the Killdeer Mountains and Little Missouri River Badlands of North Da kota under this designation (bailey, 1927z25). Both Hunt's American Fur Company Astoria Expedition (1811) and Jedediah Smith's expedition of 15 fur traders passed through parts of the Black Hills. Additionally, there was a number of other traders and trappers who traversed the Hills during the first half of the nineteenth century, but these men left little record of their passing. Fur trading posts were established near the mouth of the Belle Fourche River and on the White River, near the mouth of Wounded Knee Creek, as early as 1828. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
