"This valley for the most part is wide and open." There are "spurs separating it from the Hell-Gate Valley on the south," and "separate on the north the various tributaries flowing into the Blackfoot River." Plate LXII.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bison; Cheyenne River; Lake Jessie
Ascending a high hill after crossing the Sheyenne (Cheyenne) River, the expedition looked out upon an estimated 200,000 buffalo inhabiting the plains separating them from Lake Jessie. Plate X.