Note 17 — COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXPEDITION
Reading edition
This was an important place during the fur-trading era. It was more commonly known as Bellevue, and was situated about nine miles above the mouth of the Platte. The first post was established about 1810, and soon passed into the control of the Missouri Fur Company, under Joshua Pilcher—hence the name of Pilcher's Post. For a sketch of Pilcher, see James's Long's Expedition, in our volume xiv, p. 269, note 193.—Ed.