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Revealing of that fact was a direct fruit of expedition of Lewis and Clark, that through Rocky mountains there is a convenient pass, and it has paved the way for the big transcontinental travel of following half a century. Indirectly expedition has played still the big role that has drawn attention of dealers living in Saint Louis furs to the rich and not investigated West. Certainly, buyers of furs got for Mississipi already since 1794; one of them, somebody John Makkej, has constructed some posts between the rivers Piobara and Platte, and its assistant Ivens has reached villages of Indians of a tribe mandan. Makkej has collected some valuable geographical material, and there are bases to think, that Lewis and Clark knew and used it.

While Lewis and Clark worked in the Distant West, the lieutenant 3. Pajk made research Mississipi upwards from a place of its merge to Missouri. In 1806-1807 it has made new large travel to a river Arkansas valley on which has proceeded to it verhovev in Rocky mountains. Having climbed up a ridge to which it has entitled Uajt-Snou (Snow-white), it has got to other valley and has decided, that it and is a valley Red River (Red River) on which searches it has gone. Pajk has proceeded on a valley on the south, but has been taken prisoner by the Spanish armies and it is taken away in Santa Fe. The river on which current it went, was actually the Rio-grandee-del-norte, and it conducted directly on the Spanish territory. Pajk has necessarily passed through a considerable part of Mexico, has not reached yet at last Chihuahua and has not received there possibility to give necessary explanations to general Salsedo. It has been sent, and it was offered to it to return through Texas.