A TABLE OF DISTANCES[59]

From the mouth of the Missouri to the Mandan Villages—Rivers—Latitudes,
&c.

Places Width
of
rivers,
yds.		 Side of
Missouri		 Distance Total
Dist.		 Latitude
St. Charles N. E. 21 38° 59′
Osage river, (Little,) 30 N. E. 20
Charles’ creek 20 S. W. 27
Shepherd’s creek S. W. 15
Gasconade river 157 S. W. 17 100 38° 45′
Muddy river 50 N. E. 15
Great Osage 397 S. W. 18 133 38° 31′
Marrow Creek 20 S. W. 5
Cedar Creek and island 20 N. E. 7
Lead Mine hill S. W. 9
Hamilton’s creek 20 S. W. 8
Split Rock creek 20 N. E. 8 170
Saline or Salt river 30 S. W. 3
Manitoo river 30 N. E. 9
Good Woman’s river 35 N. E. 9
Mine river 70 S. W. 9 200
Arrow prairies S. W. 6
The Charitons 30 N. E. 14
70
Ancient village of Missouri Indians, near which, fort Orleans formerly stood N. E. 16
{244} Grand River 90 N. E. 4 240
Snake creek 18 N. E. 6
Ancient village of the Little Osage Indians S. W. 10 256
Tiger creek and Island 25 N. E. 20
A creek and island S. W. 12
Fire prairie and creek S. W. 12
Fort Clark or Osage S. W. 6 306
Hay Cabin creek 20 S. W. 6
Coal bank S. W. 9
Blue Water river 30 S. W. 10
Kansas river 233 S. W. 9 340 39° 5′
Little river Platte 60 N. E. 9
1. Old Kansas village S. W. 28
Independence creek S. W. 28
2. Old Kansas village S. W. 1
St. Michael’s prairie N. E. 24
Nodawa river 70 N. E. 20 450 39° 40′
Loup or Wolf river 60 S. W. 14
Big Nimeha 80 S. W. 16
Tarkio creek 23 N. E. 3
Nish-na-botona 50 N. E. 25 508
Little Nimeha 48 S. W. 8
Bald-pated prairie—the river Nish-na-bo-tona is at this place not more than 150 yards from the bank of the Missouri. N. E. 23
Weeping-water creek 25 S. W. 29
River Platte 600 S. W. 32 600 41° 4′
Butterfly creek 18 S. W. 3
Moscheto creek 22 N. E. 7
Ancient village of Ottoes S. W. 11
do.   of Ayuwas N. E. 6
{245} —— river 28 N. E. 11
Council Bluffs S. W. 12 650 41° 17′
Soldier’s river 40 N. E. 39
Little Sioux 80 N. E. 44
Bad Spirit river S. W. 55 788
A bend in the river, 20 miles round, and but 900 yards across. 21 809
An island 3 miles N. E. of Floyd’s village. 27 836
Floyd’s river and bluff 35 N. E. 14 850
Big Sioux river 110 N. E. 3 853 38° 48′
Commencement of the Cobell, Alum, and Copperas bluffs S. W. 27 880
Hot or Burning bluffs S. W. 30
White Stone river 30 N. E. 8
An old village at the mouth of Little Bow creek S. W. 20
River a Jaque or James R. 90 N. E. 12 950 42° 53′
Calumet bluff S. W. 13
Ancient fortification, Good Man’s Isle S. W. 13 976
Plumb creek 12 N. E. 10
White Paint creek 28 S. W. 8
Qui Courre creek 150 S. W. 6 1000
Poncas river and village 30 S. W. 10
The village of dog prair. S. W. 20
The island Cedar 40
White River 300 S. W. 60 1130
The 3 rivers of the Sioux 36 N. E. 22
An island in the upper part of the Big Bend S. W. 20
{246} Upper part of the Big Bend, the gorge 1¼ mile across S. W. 30
Tyler’s river 35 S. W. 6 1208
L’Oiselle’s post, Cedar island 18 44° 12′
Titon river 70 S. W. 37
The upper part of five old record villages of Arikaras, reduced by the Sioux S. W. 42
Chienne river 400 S. W. 5 1310 44° 20′
Old record village 47
Ser-war-cerna 90 S. W. 40 1397
Waterhoo 120 S. W. 25 1422 45° 35′
Old village on an island S. W. 4
Arikara, 2 villages S. W. 4
Stone Idol creek 18 N. E. 18
Warecore 35 N. E. 40
Cannon-ball river 140 S. W. 12 1500 46° 29′
Old Mandan village S. W. 40
do. S. W 40
Mandan village S. W. 20 1600 47° 13′
Company’s Fort 40 1640

[54] Brackenridge includes in his appendix, matter which is also given by Bradbury (vol. v of our series), and which therefore is here omitted: 1st, Sibley’s journey to the salines, incorporated by Bradbury in the text of his journal, pp. 191-194. 2d, extract from the Missouri Gazette, on voyage of the Astorians—Bradbury, appendix iii. 3d, oration of Big Elk—Bradbury, appendix ii.—Ed.

[55] Brackenridge in the early part of 1811 wrote some articles on Louisiana for periodical publication. These he afterwards revised and enlarged, and incorporated in a volume entitled Views of Louisiana (Pittsburgh, 1814). From this he has extracted chapter iii, to include in the appendix to the journal. See preface to the present volume.—Ed.

[56] See Pike’s Journal.—Brackenridge.

Comment by Ed.—Pike, Account of Expeditions to Sources of Mississippi, and through Western Parts of Louisiana ... during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807 (Baltimore, 1810); new edition, Coues ed. (New York, 1895).

[57] The journal of William Dunbar and Dr. Hunter up the Red and Washita rivers was published in Lewis and Clark, Statistical Account (London, 1807), pp. 74-116.—Ed.

[58] There are extensive tracts of moving sands similar to those of the African deserts. Mr. Makey informed me that he was several days in passing over one of these between the Platte and the Missouri, and near the mountains; there was no sign of vegetation.—Brackenridge.

[59] By comparison of this table with the more detailed list in Lewis and Clark’s Narrative (Biddle ed., Philadelphia, 1814), ii, pp. 462-464, it will be noticed that several changes have been made by Brackenridge, both in the data and orthography, while the latitude is added. From internal evidence, there is some reason to believe that Brackenridge had access to the original journals of Lewis and Clark, but failed properly to interpret some of the proper names in the manuscript.—Ed.

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