Trail Journal excerpt from Lewis and Clark near Boons Settlement
May 1804 to Sept 1806 entries recount a detour detaining the party an hour then reaching a creek mouth on the Strid. They note a Osage settlement, a cave with painted rock images, Indigenous and French homage, and Capt Lewis nearly slipping from a cliff 300 feet high. They pass Boones settlement near the river, founded by Daniel Boone.
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