Journal entry · September 7, 1806
Missouri River through Dakota territory — John Ordway: September 7, 1806
John Ordway · Council Bluffs area (Fort Atkinson vicinity), near present-day Fort Calhoun, NE — Council with Oto and Missouri nations · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Council Bluffs (historical), near Fort Calhoun, NE — Oto/Missouri council site
eairly leaving me with my canoe to wait for the [hunters] we
waited untill ab* 10 A. M. then hearing a blunderbuss fired a head
as a Signal that the hunters were a head So we Set out and fol-
lowed on the wind So high that we could Scarsely proceed, about
2 oClock P. M. we overtook the party who had halted to hunt as
the wind was so high, the Hunters killed 4 Elk and caught three
large catfish which was fat. towards evening the wind abated So
that we procd on untill after Sunset and Camped on a sand beach.3
the Musquetoes not So troublesome as they have been for a long
time past.
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bar, 3 mi east of Blair, NE
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 3.0 mi
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