Bourgmont, recovered from his illness, resumes his…

October 1724 CE

Bourgmont, recovered from his illness, resumes his journey to the Padouca on October 8.

His party is much smaller and more nimble: fifteen French and Métis, including Bourgmont's half-Missouria son; the five Padoucas, seven Missouria, five Kaw, four Otoe, and three Iowa.

The Osage are not recorded as part of this smaller expedition.

Ten horses carry the baggage.

The party proceeds southwest and on October 11 at the crossing of the Kansas River, near present-day Rossville, Bourgmont recorded seeing buffalo.

The expedition passes through innumerable buffalo, a hunter's paradise.

They recorded thirty herds in one day, each herd consisting of four hundred to five hundred buffalo.

Bourgmont writes, "Our hunters kill as many as they please."

Deer are also abundant.

In one day they see more than two hundred, plus numerous turkeys near the streams.

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Rossville Shawnee Kansas United States View →

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Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont View →

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