Dan Flores

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Gunfighters · Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I have named it Canis ludovicianus.

One final observation about the country.

Bee trees and the honeybee

which the Indians call white man's fly, do not now occur past about 97 degrees west.

But our Caddo guides say they find them farther upriver every year.

On account of emissaries sent in advance of us by Dehahuit, the great Caddo chief, to apprise the Pawnees of our mission,

Our arrival here was expected and greeted warmly by the Pawnee chief, Owahakai, whose name means great bear.

Mr. Freeman will offer the presidential eye a fulsome account of his speech to the assembled Pawnees, informing them they were now children of the U. States, expressing our desire for trade relations, distributing gifts from our stores for this purpose, and presenting Oaxaca a U.S.

flag, which he wrapped around his person, then hoisted above his village."

After some haggling, he agreed to trade us sufficient horses for 24 of us to continue our journey upriver, for which we embarked tomorrow, September 11th, accompanied by Talapun and three Pawnees.

Captain Sparks has now appointed Corporals Reed and Osborne, with two more enlisted men, to remain at the Pawnee villages to guard one of the flatboats and three pieros our party will use to descend the river when we return from its exploration.

The rest of the party, 22 in number and commanded by Lieutenant Humphreys, will set out downriver tomorrow in the other large flatboat and pieros.

Obedient to the President's instructions, in our short stay I have attempted a Pawnee vocabulary, several words of which appear similar to those of the Caddos.

A young Pawnee woman, Shide'a, remarkable for her address and intelligence, was my principal informant in this and other endeavors.

Her name is that of one of the common shrubs in this vast country and means wild sage.

The Pawnees, some of whom call themselves Iskanis, others Taioves, others Owahes, and still others Wichitas, are a beguiling and handsome people numbering about 400, now greatly reduced by the smallpox.

They came to this fine spot on the river within the memories of some of those still living and say they formerly lived on rivers to the north, including the Arkansas, and knew white men there many generations ago.

Several Spaniards raised from childhood as Indians reside among them and on inquiry said they wished no other life.

At a distance, their houses resemble those of the Caddos, but are constructed on a different plan and include space inside for their best horses on account of frequent attacks on their villages by the Osages.

Like the Caddos, their women grow maize, squashes, and beans of various sorts, also melons, which they raise in sufficient quantities to store and to trade with the nomadic Aitans, or Kumech, as some call them, for products of the chase.

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