The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . ssouri) with such rapidity that we could not trust ourselves to go nearit. The waters of this river are so muddy that we could not drink it. Itso discolors the Mississippi as to make the navigation of it river comes from the northwest and on its banks arc situated a num-ber of Indian villages. Ill a most interesting chart of the expedition, now in the archives atMontreal, Marquette locates, in what is now Kansas and Nebraska, thefollowing Indian villages: The Ouemessouriet (Missouri), the Kenza(Kansas), the Ouchag
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . ssouri) with such rapidity that we could not trust ourselves to go nearit. The waters of this river are so muddy that we could not drink it. Itso discolors the Mississippi as to make the navigation of it river comes from the northwest and on its banks arc situated a num-ber of Indian villages. Ill a most interesting chart of the expedition, now in the archives atMontreal, Marquette locates, in what is now Kansas and Nebraska, thefollowing Indian villages: The Ouemessouriet (Missouri), the Kenza(Kansas), the Ouchage (Osage), the (Pawnee), and the Maha(Umaha). ihat his information was indeed surprisingly accurate is seenfrom this that French explorers found these very tribes in relatively thesame position as indicated in the chart nearly 200 years later. Lewis and Clark, in the expedition of 1804, found Pawnees, Missourisand Otoes in possession of the Platte, the Poncas near the mouth of theNiobrara and the Omahas in the northeastern part of the state, centering.
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