Long's Expedition Stopped At Fort Osage

Photo Taken At Fort Osage

James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, 1819-1820, Volume 17,  By Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say:

On the voyage up the Missouri, a party was detached from the steam-boat at Fort Osage, with instructions to proceed across the country by land, to the Konzas village, and thence to the villages of the Pawnees, on the river Platte, and to return on board again at the Council Bluffs.