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Rh rington, Jefferson County —fifteen short miles from Walnut Point and known in early days as Yellow Bark. The feat of felling trees across this rushing stream being accomplished, the men crawled over and encamped on the eastern bank. A picture of the army splashing along through the watery prairies would be greatly prized today, but a picture of it creeping across Petit Fork on felled tree-trunks would be of extraordinary interest; it is one of the remarkable incidents of the heroic adventure.

Of these days the accounts of Clark furnish us almost no information. The incident of the Petit Fork was not sufficiently notable to receive mention, for Clark wrote Mason: "The first obstruction of any consequence that I met with was on the 13th [the Little Wabash];" yet in his Memoir—written, it must be remembered, as late as 1791—he describes the march to