Cardinal Fleury, and it was the same force that prompted the expedition of Verendrye into northern Wyoming in 1740.

Whatever feeble collateral history there is available at this time, was probably inspired by Lady Pompadour. And from Duiderot, one of the famous scriveners of the time, and from De Margry, are the only references to the journey, that I have been able to find. I would give much for the manuscript of Tommy Chaunavierre, but he is passed; and the family long scattered to other lands.

THE FUR-TRADERS

The fur trade began in the territory about us, a little over one hundred years ago, and it continued until the passing of the buffalo. The active period was for about fifty years, and the romance of that wild, hard life is now only a memory.

The dangers attendant during the Indian wars, the thrilling experiences of emigrants and pony express riders, and the overland stage, and the later inspiration of the cowmen, each have important parts ; and in the evolution of the past, the homesteaders of twenty-five to thirty-five years ago, and the people of the later periods, each have been history makers. The slow process of irrigation, has been another epoch in our little world, and the fullness of its glory is not yet nearly reached. But fur trailers and trappers came into this primitive wilderness, largely for the love of adventure, and they built campfires that burned so brightly for a time which now have faded and smoldered, and are lost into the receding past.