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Journal entry · September 16, 1806
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 16, 1806
Patrick Gass · Missouri River near present-day Waverly · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition
The place today: Missouri River near present-day Waverly
ceeded on early, and at 9 o’clock met a large periogue with
eight men, going to trade with the Ponis nation of Indians on
the river Platte about seventy or eighty miles from its mouth.
At 11 we met a batteaux and two canoes going up to the
Kanowas nation, who live on a river of the same name. We
halted with them a while, then proceeded on, and at sunset
encamped on an island.
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island 9 mi SW of Carrollton, MO
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