[155] Letters to Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress.

[156] I am indebted to Miss Lucretia Hart Clay for the privilege of examining the extensive collection of Hart and Benton MSS. in her possession.

[157] The voluminous records of the treaty are found in the Jefferson MSS., vol. 5. MSS. Division, Library of Congress.

[158] "Narrative of Felix Walker," Original MS. owned by C. L. Walker.

[159] Hulbert: Boone's Road.

[160] Original of Henderson's Journal is in Draper MSS., 1 CC 21-130 A. D.

[161] Hall: Sketches of the West, i, 254-5.

[162] This quotation is taken from the original manuscript. The version in De Bow's Review, 1854, is imperfect. For better printed versions of Walker's two accounts, see Memoirs of Felix Walker, New Orleans (1877), and Journal of American History, i, No. 1 (1907).

[163] Original journal of William Calk, owned by Mrs. Price Calk.

[164] Letters to Washington, MSS. Division, Library of Congress.