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First Sign

On June 6, 1804, near Boonville, Missouri, William Clark remarked simply, "Some buffalow Sign to day." Hoofprints and dung, perhaps.

On June 28, in the vicinity of present-day Kansas City, they finally caught sight of some, but it was to be another two months before they would get close enough to shoot one.

--Joseph Mussulman
Bison - Map
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Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
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