Missouri River through Dakota territory — Patrick Gass: September 7, 1806

Patrick Gass · Council Bluffs area (Fort Atkinson vicinity), near present-day Fort Calhoun, NE — Council with Oto and Missouri nations · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

The place today: Council Bluffs (historical), near Fort Calhoun, NE — Oto/Missouri council site

not having come in we left a canoe, with directions to wait till
12 o’clock for them; and proceeded on. About 9 o’clock we
met with our hunters, but they had not killed any thing; and
at 11 halted to hunt and wait for the canoe. In a short time
we killed three elk and brought in the meat; and the canoe
having come up we proceeded on, and at sunset encamped.
The musquitoes are not so troublesome as they were some
time ago.

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elk musquitoes

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meat

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bar, 3 mi east of Blair, NE

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