I have thought it advisable also to secure from obliteration the trace of the road so far as it has been approved, which has been executed at such considerable expense, by opening one-half of its breadth through its whole length.
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Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced a ready consent to the proposition.
Lieutenant Pike on his part made presents to the Indians to some amount.
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