. History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the great civil war ... biographical sketches of prominent men .. . f this great stream, and they named it Peki-tononi, or Muddy Water River. It was known by this name untilabout 1710 or 1712, when it began to be called the river of the Mis-souris, referring to a tribe of Indians that dwelt at its mouth, chiefly onthe lands now comprised in St. Louis count
. History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the great civil war ... biographical sketches of prominent men .. . f this great stream, and they named it Peki-tononi, or Muddy Water River. It was known by this name untilabout 1710 or 1712, when it began to be called the river of the Mis-souris, referring to a tribe of Indians that dwelt at its mouth, chiefly onthe lands now comprised in St. Louis county. Marquette and Joliet wenton down the river as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas river, of coursemaking several camping stops on Missouri soil, and discovering the Ohioriver. From the Arkansas they returned northw^ard the same way they * De Soto and his army came into Missoari trom the south, twice crossing the Ozarkmountains. He spent the winter of 1541-42 in Vernon county, in the extreme westernpart of the State. Ruins of their winter camp structures and smelting operations are stillfound there. They melted lead ore for silver, and the glittering, lustrous, yellow, zincblende or Smithsonite for gold; but were deeply disgusted to find at last that they hadbeen handling only the basest UNITED STATES CUSTOM-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE,AT KANSAS CITY,—1881.
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