Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . n speaking of Springfield, that the lands on the south and west arebeautiful prairies, which, in early days, were cultivated by the aborigines. A Kickapoo village existed in 1828 just north of what is now the townof Strafi^ord, in Greene County.** In 1832, the Kickapoos ceded the reservation before described for one inKansas, northwest of Fort Leavenworth. Members of this tribe were probably more intimately associated withthe pioneer white hunters of this regio
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . n speaking of Springfield, that the lands on the south and west arebeautiful prairies, which, in early days, were cultivated by the aborigines. A Kickapoo village existed in 1828 just north of what is now the townof Strafi^ord, in Greene County.** In 1832, the Kickapoos ceded the reservation before described for one inKansas, northwest of Fort Leavenworth. Members of this tribe were probably more intimately associated withthe pioneer white hunters of this region than those of the two tribes previouslyreferred to, and the early settlers relate many stories regarding them. Owen, of Springfield, states that when her ancestors, the Campbells,came to Missouri in the fall of 1829, or later, members of this tribe had a * United States Bureini of American Ethnology. Bulletin 30. Part I, p. Eighteenth Annual Report, Bureau American Ethnology. Part II. p. no. * Commonwealth of , p. S73. *• Eighteenth Annual Report, Bureau American Ethnology, Part II, map .38. t 55 \im. ^^ GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 41 village situated in the tract between the present streets known as Campbell,Pearl, Madison and Grand avenue; tliat there was a sunken spring east ofSouth street, one hundred and fifty feet from Madison, wliere the Kickapoosused to get their drinking water. She remembers that in her early childhoodshe used to watch the Indians lean over to dip tlie water out. The springreferred to was destroyed at the time of the building of the new city sewer. The Piankashaw and Pawnee tribes were occasional visitors rather thanpermanent dwellers in this region. There was a small village of the formerjust west of Forsyth in 1828; also a village of Peorias and Piankashaws eastof Forsyth in the same year. There were a few Piankashaws around Spring-field, who associated w-ith the Delawares and were known by the early Salle, in 16
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