Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811. Including a description of upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and western territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries / by John Bradbury.

  • Bradbury, John, active 1809.
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811. Including a description of upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and western territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries / by John Bradbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be hailed, I got across by swimming, having tied my clothes together, and inclosed them in my deer skin hunting coat, which I pushed before me. I overtook the boat in about three hours, and we en- camped at the mouth of a creek called Boeuf, near the house of one Sullens. I inquired of Sullens for John Colter, one of Lewis and Clarke’s party, whom General Clark had mentioned to me as be- ing able to point out the place on the Missouri where the petrified skeleton of a fish, above forty feet long, had been found. Sullens informed me that Colter lived about a mile from us, and sent his son to inform him of our arrival; but we did not see him that evening. 18th.—At day-break Sullens came to our camp, and informed us that Colter* would be with us in a * This man came to St. Louis in May, 1810, in a small canoe, from the head waters of the Missouri, a distance of three thousand miles, which he traversed in thirty days. I saw him on his arrival, and received from him an account of his adventures after he had separated from Lewis and Clarke’s party: one of these, from its singularity, I shall relate. On the arrival of the party on the head waters of the Missouri, Colter, observing an appearance of abundance of beaver being there, he got permis- sion to remain and hunt for some time, which he did in company with a man of the name of Dixon, who had traversed the im- mense tract of country from St. Louis to the head waters of the Missouri alone. Soon after he separated from Dixon, and trap- ped in company with a hunter named Potts ; and aware of the