Excerpt from Fort Orleans on the Missouri: Its Location and History, With Some Account of Bourgmont's Expeditions to the Padoucas A personal knowledge of the topography of the country about all the sites claimed for old Fort Orleans has made its history attractive to the writer, and that attraction has resulted in this pamphlet. All known authorities on its history have been consulted, and the lan guage of the French writers themselves is giv en rather than a mere summary of their pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.