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The first boat sank with his father's rifle in it, and the river was only getting started.
Asa Crowder, out of the lead diggings at Potosi, is hauling the keelboat Enterprize up the Missouri on the towline when a sawyer and a sunken tree roll her over. The cargo box goes down with his father's rifle inside. Asa goes under the hull after a Tennessee man who told everyone the first day he could not swim.
Ashley's men go on with a second boat, past Fort Atkinson, the Omaha, the Arikara towns and the buffalo, to the mouth of the Yellowstone, where Henry means to build a post and trap through the winter. Asa carries the answer he still owes a widow with a mill back home, and learns the trade under the ice while the Blackfeet watch the river.
