Note 8 — Chapter IV · CHOLERA ON THE “YELLOWSTONE.”
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“Captain Pratt of the Assiniboine reports that he met the Yellowstone at the mouth of the Kansas River, having lost her best pilot from the cholera, and four or five men in the space of twenty-four hours. I fear that, in this situation, she will not be able to continue her voyage.”—Pierre Chouteau, Jr., to John Jacob Astor, July 12, 1833.