![]() ![]() From thence we proceeded up the Missouri until we arrived at the mouth of the Kanzas river, where we again tarried two or three days, for the purpose of trading some goods to the Kanzas Indians for corn, moccasins, &c. Here we remained several days and purchased and packed up a sufficiency of provision, as we then thought, for our subsistance through the wilderness to what is called the Buffaloe country a distance of about 200 miles. ![]() We continued our journey in a western direction, in the state of Missouri, on the south side of the Missouri river, through a country thinly inhabited by the whites and friendly Indians, until we arrived at Fort Osage the extreme point of the white settlement. ![]() also horses and goods of various descriptions, to trade with the Indians for furs and Buffaloe robes. Each man was furnished with the necessary equipments for the expedition - such as traps, guns, &c. Gant and Blackwell, left St.Louis on the 24th of April, 1831. comprising a minute description of the incidents of the adventure, and a valuable history of this immense territory - not from maps and charts, but from personal observation. Louis in the Spring of 1831, on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, for the purpose of trapping for Furs, and trading with the Indians, by one of the company, Mr. Of the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St. Click Here to download a PDF file of this Narrative ![]()
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