A Note From Cottonwood Corners

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A Note From Cottonwood Corners

We do not know when the first white man entered the Missouri River, but it is probably between 1700 and 1705. Accounts of 1699 and 1705 are doubtful and not worthy of our trust. There can be no question; however, that about 1705 the lower part of the Missouri was explored by the French as far up as the mouth of the Kansas River, also known as the “Kaw River.”