Journal entry · September 15, 1806
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — John Ordway: September 15, 1806
John Ordway · Mouth of Kansas River · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Mouth of Kansas River
and procd on the wind a head as usal. our hunters shot a buck
Elk from their canoe on the lower point of an Isld and was fat.
we took the meat on board and procd on towards evening the
hunters Shot a buck from their canoe, we have seen about 20
deer on the shores this day we Camped at Sunset on N. Side2
an emence Site of pappaws & as the men were gathering them Saw
a number of rattle Snakes and killed one of them and saved the
skin.
1 Clark places the camp on an island in the middle of the river, below the
encampment of July 1, 1804. He further notes that the party “received a
dram and Sung Songs untill 11 oClock at night in the greatest harmoney.”
2 A short distance above Hav Cabin (modern Little Blue) Creek.
400 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Sept. 16
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Hay Cabin Creek, 9 mi SSW of Excelsior Springs, MO (location uncertain, per NPS)
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