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On September 15, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, returning from the Pacific, stood on this point and recorded in their journal that it was a commanding situation for a fort and that from the top of the hill there was a perfect command of the river. Here their men shot an elk and gathered custard apples, or pawpaws. On June 26-29, 1804, during the westward journey, they camped at the mouth of the Kansas.
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