Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Vol. 27: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel; Part II of Flagg's the Far West, 1836-1837; And De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 Volume xxvii of our series begins with chapter xxxiii of the original New York edition (1838) of Flagg's The Far West. The author is here describing the part of his journey made in the late summer or early autumn of 18 36. Ed. 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.