Platte River, Nebraska, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

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"…We met a trading raft from the Pawnee nation on the river Platte, and attempted unsuccessfully to engage one of their party to return with us.…"

"At about seven o'clock in the rain we reached the mouth of the great river Platte, where the highlands had stopped about three quarters of a mile from its entrance."

"…our French interpreters assure us, that there are great numbers of them on the Platte, the Kanzas, the Jacques, &c."

"the wolf of the Atlantic states, which animal as far as we can perceive is not to be found on this side of the river Platte."

"…while the eastern branches approach the heads of Clarke’s river, the Bighorn, and the Platte; so that it waters the middle portion of the Rocky mountains…"

"…By eight o’clock we passed the river Platte, which is lower than it was, and its waters almost clear…"

"Captain McClellan is on his way to attempt a new trade with the Indians. His plan is to establish himself on the Platte, and after trading with the Pawnees and Ottoes, prevail on some of their chiefs to accompany him to Santa Fee."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Miles of brown grass, raw cutbanks, flooded creeks coming down into the flooded bottoms of the Platte where bare cottonwoods seemed to grow out of a slough, and the benches of the flood plain, seen through rain that swept along the train and rattled on the windows, were the banks of a dreary lake."