Siha-sa-pas or Blackfeet, on the Missouri in the neighborhood of the Cannonball River.
In Lewis and Clark's travels in 1803, they are called the Teton Saone, and their villages are located on the Missouri, near Cannonball River.
Lewis and Clark found them in three villages between the Grand and Cannonball Rivers in what is now North and South Dakota.
This staunch ark weathered the fury of the waters and finally came to rest on a high hill near the Cannonball River (see Side Tour 8C).
Right from Elgin on an unimproved county road to the north fork of the Cannonball River, =2 m.
The Cannonball was the northern boundary of the Standing Rock Reservation before the area was opened to white settlement in 1910, and now is the northern limit of jurisdiction of the agency.
Trees are few along this route, except for the tiny groves on occasional farms, and the woods and bushes that edge the Cannonball River and its tributary creeks.
The Mandan legend tells that an ark came to rest on this hill near the Cannonball River, and after the waters subsided the First Man and First Woman stepped out on the hill.
Here, as the highway begins to descend into the valley of the Cannonball River, there is a far-reaching view of country severe and imposing.
Hotel and tourist camp facilities limited in most towns; many natural camping places along the Cannonball River.
South of Cannonball Corner the route proceeds on ND 24 to the junction with a graveled road at =69 m.
Nearly opposite the mouth of the Cannonball on the eastern bank of the Missouri, according to legend, once stood a Sioux village where in early days a holy man prophesied the coming of the white people.
That evening Al asked Captain Lamont how far it was from St. Louis to the mouth of Cannonball River, Dakota, where it was expected that the actual campaign against the Indians would begin, and was told that it was about fourteen hundred miles.
One afternoon, camp was made for the night on a level plateau covered with fine grass not far from the bank of the Cannonball and overlooking the lower valley of that stream.
They declare they have never ventured into it and advised the General to return to the Cannonball and then move west to the mouth of Powder River and down the Yellowstone to where the boats are to meet us.
If we go on at this rate it will almost puzzle a cannonball to catch us.
It was raining, and at the corner the Cannonball skidded.
The next moment the outer door slammed and I heard the engine of the Cannonball throbbing in the street.
It is a prairie stream paralleling Cannonball and Cheyenne rivers, and largely destitute of timber.
On the 21st we passed the mouth of Cannonball River.
Cannonball and found Scotty and Davy on the blind.
It was at a little town in Ohio on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern," a kid would start; and another, "Ever ride the Cannonball on the Wabash?
The first shot has only a tiny charge of explosive, and thecannonball barely makes it out of the muzzle before falling to the ground.
Lastly, with enough gunpowder, a speeding cannonball would completely circle the earth without hitting it.
Grommet*--a rope ring used as a wad to hold a cannonball in place in the bore.
They had moved out of the shack on the Little Cannonball for two reasons.
Ferris and Frank Vine, talking the matter over, decided that the camp of Gregor Lang on Little Cannonball Creek fifty miles up the river, was the logical place to use as headquarters for the hunt.
We were sitting on a log," said Merrifield, many years later, "up at what we calledCannonball Creek.
A cannonball struck Saint Ruth, as he stood in the middle of the battery and killed him instantly.
Here, as at the Boyne, the king had a narrow escape, a cannonball from the walls striking the ground at his foot as he was passing through a gap in a hedge.
The first shot had only a tiny charge of explosive, and the cannonball barely makes it out of the muzzle before falling to the ground.
I would as lief be struck by a cannonball as by one of those strips of lead.
This village we have just mentioned was on the east side of the river nearly opposite to the mouth of the Cannonball River.
He had not got to the end of this ditty when a cannonball landed in the midst of his company right next to him and six men were killed by it or knocked to the ground wounded.
His head was shot off by a cannonball just as his regiment was charging at the bridge.
As I entered the building a cannonball from the enemy crashed through the house and killed four soldiers by the stairway.
A cannonball had in an instant cut away the top of his head in as straight a line as if it had been done with a surgeon's saw.
The Austrians fought as stoutly, Marshal Browne leading them till a cannonball took off his foot, and he was carried into Prague, to die there six weeks later.
As they neared Hochkirch a cannonball took off the head of Frank of Brunswick, the king's youngest brother-in-law.
Their losses had been caused by the storm of cannonball and bullet which had swept through them, as, panting and breathless, they struggled up the steep slopes, incapable of answering the fire of the enemy.
They invited him to join them, and the party were chatting gaily when a heavy cannonballcrashed through the earthen rampart behind them, and, passing between Hepburn and Munro, carried off the leg of the Swedish officer.
The gunners of the town, seeing a number of officers approaching, fired, and with so good an aim that a cannonball carried off the hindquarters of the horse the king was riding.
On the following day a cannonball carried off the head of the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and on the same day Tilly expired.
The fire was destructive, and many of the Scots were killed, Hepburn and Munro having a narrow escape, a cannonball passing just over their heads as they were sitting together by a fire.
Altringer, however, rallied them and led them back again to the charge, but a cannonball grazed his temple and he was carried senseless from the field.
