CHAPTER I [IX of Vol. III, original ed.]—Journey from Belle Point to Cape Girardeau. Cherokee Indians. Osage War. Regulator's Settlements of White River
Calculations of Observations made ... on a tour from the Council Bluffs on the Missouri River, westward along the river Platte to its head waters in the Rocky Mountains,—thence southwardly to the head waters of the Arkansa and Canadian rivers, and down said rivers to Belle Point, performed in 1820. [From Philadelphia edition, 1823]. Stephen Harriman Long, and William Henry Swift