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| | Buenaventura River |
 | | A river, the "Buenaventura," indicated upon a map furnished me by the Hudson's Bay Company as breaking through the mountains, was found not to exist. |
 | | "An inteligent man with whom I boarded had a map which showed these rivers (one was the Buenaventura) to be large, and he advised me to take tools along to make canoes, so that...we could descend one of these rivers to the Pacific." John Bidwell, Barttleson-Bidwell Party, 1841. |
 | | I felt no other anxiety than to pass safely across the intervening desert to the banks of the Buenaventura,, where, in the softer climate of a more southern latitude, our horses might find grass to sustain them, and ourselves be sheltered from the rigors of winter and from the inhospitable desert. |
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