On August 1, 1806, Capt. Wm. Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, six of his men, and Sacajawea with her child floated by here in a craft made by lashing together two hollowed-out cottonwood logs. It was Clark's birthday, and the party had to land that afternoon to let a herd of buffalo swim the river ahead of them. In 1855, Sir George Gore, a sporting Irish nobleman, arrived to hunt with Jim Bridger as guide, and during an eleven-month stay in the Yellowstone Valley his harvest included 105 bear, over 2,000 buffalo, and 1,600 elk and deer. He hunted for the thrill of the chase and trophies, only infrequently using the meat, and the Crows, who occupied this country, hotly protested the devastation of their food supply. Sir George named a local tributary of the Yellowstone River Glendive, and the town took the same name 25 years later. During the cattle boom of the 1880s, Glendive became the Queen City of the Cow Land, and in 1884, 12,800 pilgrims, or eastern cattle, were unloaded here in one week to help stock the range; they may have been barnyard stock, but their progeny grew up rough, tough, and hard to curry.