As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.....
In reading the French journal of Gabriel Franchere, who was part of the founding of Astoria for John Jacob Astor at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811, I found what was interesting to me in a quote concerning what would be the mountains in Montana.
"His hunters were then absent on Smoke river (so called by some travellers who saw in the neighborhood a volcanic mountain belching smoke), in quest of game."
Gabriel Franchere. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
Mssr. Franchere mentions Mt. St. Helens, having already been named in what would be Washington state, and the mountain he is speaking about are not the volcanic peaks of the northwest as he had left them sixty days behind and this quote is proof where he was.
"The post of the Rocky Mountains, in English, Rocky Mountains House, is situated on the shore of the little lake I have mentioned, in the midst of a wood, and is surrounded, except on the water side, by steep rocks, inhabited only by the mountain sheep and goat. Here is seen in the west the chain of the Rocky Mountains, whose summits are covered with perpetual snow."
These travelers were following on Lewis and Clarke's expedition, and on the Columbia and into Idaho. He mentions glaciers as well as Blackfoot Indians, which would put this as northwestern Montana.
This Rocky Mountain House is not to be confused with a later constructed one on the Saskatchewan or in that period Saskatchawine River, which was put up in 1850, as this French journal was written in 1814.
That is the interesting part as no one speaks of volcanic mountains in the Rocky chain. It is known of the Yellowstone cauldera, but that is several hundred miles south of this. It is apparent that something was taking place in America in this 1810 period, as Davy Crockett wrote of the earth rent in deep gashes due to the New Madrid quake.
There was a volcano which was active in the northern Rockies during this period too.
None of this is not known, as the buttes of eastern Wyoming, Montana, and North and South Dakota were formed from volcanic activity. There are buttes just east of what is Pierre, South Dakota, meaning volcanic activity in America was something taking place in the geological record.
I am fascinated by this, as the glamour science is all about Yellowstone exploding, but St. Helens literally blew the side of the mountain out in it's eruption. Shasta is another peak there which is volcanic, but the information that there is a volcano which was active in 1810 AD in the year of our our Lord, is both interesting and alarming, for what if in known places like Hot Springs South Dakota, there is magma generating pressure?
The Rockies are upheaval mountains, as are the Washington chains. The difference is one is volcanic currently and the others are not.
The reality is though the Rockies around Montana at least had one active system which is not spoken of and should be researched for the safety of America.
Another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.......
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