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Missouri near Floyd’s Bluff and Council Bluffs — John Ordway: September 11, 1806

September 11, 1806
John Ordway Missouri River near St. Joseph area Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

and procd on verry well untill about 11 A. M. we then halted to
hunt a Short time, found pappaws and grapes in this bottom
which is covred with cotten Honey Locus Seckamore timber &C.
the rushes thick. Drewyer killed a large deer, we then procd on
one of the hunters killed a deer from his canoe, at dusk we
Camped on a Sand beach on the N. Side.

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