Crossing the deep ravine, beside which the expedition
had been encamped for the last five days, we skirted the left bank of Bow
River, and soon the valley became hemmed in by the precipitous cliffs of
limestone that form the mountains of the outer range
In 1832 the Hudson's Bay Company established "Old Bow Fort"
close to where Old Fort Creek enters the Bow River. The creek was named
after the ruins
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