Missouri River near Cheyenne River — John Ordway: October 1, 1804

Breeze from E. Sailed on verry well past an Island, passed an
old village of the Rick Rees nation on S. S. passed the Mouth of
a large River on the South Side called ashea or dog River,2 which
1 In Sully County, five miles below I lie mouth of Cheyenne River.
2 “Chien or Dog river.” Clark. It is (lie modem Cheyenne, which drains
the Black Hills and Hows in an easterly direction to its junction with the Mis-
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is about [blank in Ms.] yards wide a Great nomber of Sand bars
at & near the Mouth (we had some difficulty to pass) Some Scat-
tering Timber on the Bottoms about the mouth of this River,
passed a bottom on N. S. Some thin timber near the River on
sd Bottoms. Barren hills back from the River on boath Sides, &
little or no Timber back from the River except on creeks &
Streams, this Side of the River Platte The wind blew so hard
that it was difficult to find the channel, we halted about 9
oClock [and] took breakfast dilayed about 2 hours then dragged
our Boat over a verry Shallow channel, hoisted Sail [and] pro-
ceeded on to a bend in the river at 2 oG. where the wind came a
head, took dinner, then proceeded on passed a Bottom cov-
ered with Small Timber on N. S. a cool day. came 14 miles &
Camped on a large Sand beach N. S.1 we saw a man on the
South Shore he called to us in french. Some of our frenchman
answered him & knew him, found he wished to See us. we de-
sired him to come he came in a pearogue over to us. it was a
young french man who lived with Mr Valley a trader from little boat.