Journal entry · July 3, 1804
Missouri River near Leavenworth area — John Ordway: July 3, 1804
John Ordway · Missouri River near Leavenworth area · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
a gentle Breese from the South, passed a long Island2 & Several
Small ones we found a white horse on the bank of the river near
whare their was an old Trading house built by a French merchant
from S* Louis to Trade with the Kansas Indians. The land is
Good high bottom pine Timber & black wallnut honey locas oak
&C. &C. I saw waat they call bucks Eye with the nuts on them
we passed a high prarie oposite to the Trading house & camped at
a point on the South Side of the Missouris
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