Francis Parkman

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.