Excerpt from A Brief History of Rocky Mountain Exploration: With Especial Reference to the Expedition of Lewis and Clark IT is a long stretch of fruitful years, from Balboa's crossing in Darien to the completion of the transcontinental railways in the United States. Adequately to treat of Rocky Moun tain Exploration as a whole would require a series of bulky volumes. When, therefore, one is asked to tell of the multitude of ad venturous expeditions incident to the scalmg of the continental divide, within the limits of one small book, the task largely resolves itself into the recitation of a bead-roll of principal events. 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.