Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Map Courtesy of National Park Service

Photo Courtesy of Larry Miller, Kansas Heritage Photography

Painting by Karl Bodmer

The Corps of Discovery, a United States Army expedition lead by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through this area on July 7, 1804. He also described passing by a small island and noted the color of the bluffs as a yellowish color. Captain Clark wrote in his journal of the men killing a wolf that day.

The amount of game that was shot by the expedition was noted because the meat was an important part of the men's diet and was a valuable commodity. Clark wrote that it required 4 deer or elk, or one buffalo, to supply the expedition members with meals for 24 hours.

[Karl Bodmer traveled through this area 17 years after the expedition and painted Nodaway Island, where the expedition passed by, and noted it may have looked similar to this.]

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