[30] Pattie is altogether too far north and west to meet the Osage River. The distance from the Platte makes it fairly certain that he was on the Republican fork of the Kansas. This stream rises in Colorado, and flows eastward across the arid plains of southern Nebraska as far as longitude 98°; it there enters the state of Kansas, and following a southeasterly course unites with the Smoky Hill River at Junction City, to form the Kansas. Its name arose from the fact that the village of the Republican Pawnee was located upon it until about 1815, when these tribesmen joined the Pawnee upon the Platte.—Ed.

[31] For a brief description of the Arikara Indians, see Bradbury's Travels, volume v of our series, p. 127, note 83.—Ed.

[32] Pattie's geography is confused by his apparent ignorance of the Kansas and its branches. Hyde Park is probably a tributary of the Republican—possibly Beaver Creek, which rises in western Kansas and flowing northeasterly discharges into the Republican in Harlan County, Nebraska.—Ed.

[33] The journals of Lewis and Clark contain a good description of the prairie dog (Cynomys or arctomys ludovicianus). See Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, index.—Ed.

[34] A short account of the Crow Indians may be found in Bradbury's Travels, in our volume v, p. 226, note 121.—Ed.

[35] Pattie is still among the tributaries of the Kansas. This must be the dividing ridge between the sources of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers.—Ed.

[36] This is the grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis), described satisfactorily for the first time by Lewis and Clark, who also called it the white bear.—Ed.

[37] Smoky Hill River, the main southern fork of the Kansas, takes its rise in Colorado, and receiving numerous tributaries in its eastward course of nearly four hundred miles, unites with the Republican, to form the Kansas, about one hundred and twenty miles from the mouth of the latter.—Ed.

[38] In Cheyenne County, Colorado.—Ed.

[39] For the Comanche Indians, see James's Long's Expedition, in our volume xvi, p. 233, note 109.—Ed.