Journal entry · June 27, 1804

Mouth of Kansas River — Joseph Whitehouse: June 27, 1804

Joseph Whitehouse · Mouth of Kansas River · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): upper junction point of Kansas and Missouri rivers, in KA

halted at the river de Caugh Meassur? the Breadth of it is
230^4; Y?” a little farder is four hundred D?
the hunters kill five deer one woolf and Catch? an other
about five Months old Kept it for three days Cut its Rope
Got away.

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upper junction point of Kansas and Missouri rivers, in KA

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