Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 1, May 21-October 16, 1839

Note 190 — Chapter VIII · {III}

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The South Platte rises in South Park (Bayou Salade), flows east and then north-east, and breaking through Front Range at Platte Cañon, above Denver, continues in a nearly northward course to old Fort St. Vrain; it then turns abruptly east across the great plains, and unites with the North Platte in western Nebraska.—Ed.

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