sentences:  The journal chronicled a 1792 expedition led by Julius Rodman up the Missouri River to the Northwest.This 1792 expedition would have made Rodman the first European to cross the Rocky Mountains.The detailed journal chronicles events of the most surprising nature, and recounts "the unparalleled vicissitudes and adventures experienced by a handful of men in a country which, until then, had never been explored by 'civilised man'."