As the enlisted men and engagés move the boats 11¼ miles up the Missouri River, Sgt. Ordway notices the nuts of the Ohio buckeye growing in the river bottoms. They find a stray white horse, pass an old French trading post, and encamp near present Bean Lake, Missouri.
Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
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New White Horse
passed a long Island & Several Small ones we found a white horse on the bank of the river near whare their was an old Trading house built by a French merchant from St. Louis to Trade with the kansars [Kansa] Indians.
—John Ordway
Ohio Buckeye Trees
The land is Good high bottom pine Timber & black wallnut honey locas oak &C. &C— I Saw waat they call bucks Eye with the nuts on them;
—John Ordway
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