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Doniphan Heritage Vineyards, Doniphan, Kansas, September 11, 2002

[View: north.  39º 38’ 20” N - 95º 04’ 06” W]

[Clark]

July 4^th Wednesday 1804. . . a Creek on the L. S. about 15 yards wide cuming

out of an extensive Prarie    as this Creek has no name, and this day is the 4^th

of July, we name this Independence us. Creek. . .We Camped in this plain. . . 

The Plains of this countrey are covered with a Leek green Grass, well calculated

for the sweetest and most norushing hay-interspersed with Cops of trees,

Spreding ther lofty branchs over Pools Springs or Brooks   of fine water.  Groops

of Shrubs covered with the most delecious froot is to be seen in every derection,

and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of

flours Delecately and highly flavered raised above the Grass, which strikes &

profumes the Sensation, and amuses the mind    throws it into Conjectering the

cause of So magnificent a Senerey in a Country thus Situated far removed from

the Sivilised world to be enjoyed by nothing but the Buffalo Elk Deer & Bear in

which it abounds & Savage Indians