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Lewis and Clark Trail. Today the Pirate wreck cIanmd.ps.
Byway offers some of the same
sights and scenes, relatively un- Pappillon r. MusquitcoaRmivp.s.
changed, first witnessed by the Tombs.
famous party in 1804. Sergeant 6
Charles Floyd, the only fatality Horse Tail Flags.
of the Corps of Discovery, lies Otto Platte River.dry wood.
buried on a bluff in the Loess Platte River.
Hills in today’s Sioux City, Iowa. Village.
In 1960 a monument erected
near his burial place became Lodges.
the first declared U.S. National
Historic Landmark. Missourians Village Medecine Timbered Bottom. Bottom prairie.
Buffalo
A few decades after the Corps Tents
of Discovery expedition, bags
westward expansion ushered in
waves of missionaries, trad- In. Lodges Potawatomie Land.
ers, artists, and settlers, some
of whom left behind maps and creek 3 Iland 5 barrel creek
drawings of Euroamerican and Native Indian settle- creek
ments. One such document was an astonishing 1839 creek In. Lodges.
map of the Missouri River prepared by Father Pierre-
Jean De Smet. 5 Barrel Iland

Imagine a great number of cabins and tents, made 2d Iland 1st Iland
of the bark of trees, buffalo skins, coarse cloth,
rushes and sods, all of a mournful and funeral washington[?] creek
aspect, of all sizes and shapes, some supported by
one pole, others having six, and with the covering Born in Belgium in 1801, De Smet immigrated to the Potawatomi who had recently been removed to the
stretched in all the different styles imaginable, and U.S. in 1821 and began Council Bluffs area. The priests of St. Joseph’s took
all scattered here and there in the greatest confu- his work as a Jesuit mis- over the abandoned Council Bluffs blockhouse, a
sion, and you will have an Indian village. (Father sionary first in Maryland small military post constructed earlier in the year by
Pierre-Jean De Smet quoted in The Life of Father and later in Florissant the U.S. government to protect the Potawatomi from
De Smet, 1915:83 by E. Laveille) near St. Louis, Missouri. rival tribes. De Smet served at St. Joseph’s for less
In 1838 he helped than two years before transferring in 1840 to what is
Dipping and curling along the western edge of found St. Joseph’s Mis- now Montana to work with the Sioux and Flatheads.
Iowa, the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway sion built to serve the
follows the Missouri River north paralleling the

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