This is part of chapter 7. The whole chapter is on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER VII UP THE MISSOURI WITH LEWIS AND CLARK If you visit the northwestern part of Iowa and stop at Sioux City, you will see a tall stone monument rising one hundred feet above the ground. This was built in 1901 to mark the place where almost a century before a young soldier had been buried. This was Sergeant Floyd who started up the Missouri River in the spring of 1804 with Lewis and Clark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Going up the river they could travel about twelve or fifteen miles a day, just about as far as an ordinary automobile goes in half an hour. Sometimes they could use the sails, but when the wind was not in the right direction they had to row the boats, or the men walked along the shore and pulled the boars up the river by a rope. Once one of the pirogues stuck on a sand bar and would have tipped over in the wind if the men had not jumped out in the water and held it until the storm passed. There they stood on the sand with the muddy water of the Missouri rushing past them, while the wind blew, the thunder crashed about them, and the rain beat down. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/