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Group at Fort Atkinson (last stop of the day)
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with a visit to the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) Rivers --
Kaw Point, across from Kansas City, MO. The Corps of Discovery stopped for
three days here June 26 - 28, 1804 to repair ropes and masts. They
recorded building a breastwork 6 feet high of logs and brush, from river
to river. For the bicentennial this campsite has been recreated, as far as
is possible. I have been coming here for several years and had a tricky
walk to get to the point. Now it has a gravel path, but I am happy to say
it has still been left very primitive. We get a real feeling of being in
their footsteps. The interpretive panels are separately located, and a
wall along the entrance road has murals of the "parrot queets" Clark
recorded. The Carolina parokeets are reportedly the only native American
parrots. 
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Then it was on to a new L&C
Interpretive Center at Nebraska City. The white pirogue and a peculiar
prairie dog.
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 We picked up our local
host, Janis Keasling in Council Bluffs, where we walked to the river and
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Ending the day at Fort
Atkinson we find the Broome Brothers with our flag,
and Rutger concluding a treaty with the Indians.
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