![]() ![]() It was established after the visit by Bourgmont, in 1724, and was in a flourishing condition in 1757. And this French post was certainly the first settlement and trading-station ever set up in what is now Kansas by the white people. This old village found abandoned by Lewis and Clark had no doubt grown up around the French fort. ![]() The party who were stationed here were probably cut off by the Indians, as there are no accounts of them. There are now no traces of the village, but the situation of the fort may be recognized by some remains of chimneys, and the general outlincs of the fortification, as well as by the fine spring which supplied it with water. About a mile in the rear of the village was a small fort, built by the French on an elevation. Opposite our camp is a valley, in which was situated an old village of the Kansas, between two high points of land, on the bank of the river. On July 2, 1804, Lewis and Clark made the following entry: ![]() ![]() This post produces one hundred bundles of furs. We have there a garrison with a commandant, appointed, as in the case with Pimiteoui and Fort Chartres by New Orleans. Kansas. In ascending this stream we meet the village of the Kansas. Morehouse quotes Bougainville on French Forts, who said in 1757: In an article on the “Kansa or Kaw Indians,” Volume X, Kansas Historical Collections, George P. Their locations of physical features and Indian tribes are invariably wrong. All the early maps of the interior of North America are necessarily erroneous. This map shows the Kansas tribe west of the Missouri, very nearly where it was then in fact located. Marquette did not visit the Missouri River country, but made his maps from information drawn from Indians, or perhaps adventurers who had wandered far from the feeble settlements. The earliest map locating the Kansas Indians is that of Marquette, in 1673. ![]()
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