Note 209 — Chapter XV
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The Osage purchase referred to was made at St. Louis, September 25, 1818. Frog Bayou is a few miles below Fort Smith. The tract lay on the north side of the Arkansas, and was sixty miles wide at the eastern line. By the word “Shoutous,” Nuttall means to designate the Chouteaus, French fur-traders at St. Louis.—Ed.