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37 Red rock. that Strip from about fifteen miles west of Fairfield, up to Red rock, was open for Settlement in the Spring of 1843, and called the New purchase

Indians unclear from Red Rock to Mo River until Spring 46

In the Spring May of 1843 the Indians once more mooved bag, and baggage up to there new homes, near Fort Desmoines Old Chief Ke=O=Kuk, located his billage just below the Raccoon forks, of Desmoines river

Old Mish=E=Ka=Mah=quet, or "Hard fish," Chief of the Foxes, located his village over on Skunk river Some twenty five or thirty miles distant from the "Sac," village margin note unclear

The Same Spring, the United States Soldiers, in command of Captain Allen, built the barracks in the Forks of Raccoon & Desmoin rivers. Now called "DesMoines" the