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334 884 BATES COUlirTY, MISGOUja. hill. It was the Sacs who compellecl the Missouris uul Osages to go fn|rther west and the Little Qsages ipeire compelled to locate near the Great Osiiges. " In aQote under the last atatepa^iiV recites: ^'The site of these Indian tribes (littleOsages: and Missonris) a^e plainly mar^ced 6n D'Aurillp'sjmap of i752:ahd'aisp on Perrin de Lac's 1805. "nie Ibcation is very nea,r Malta Bend in Saline bolinty,, Missouri." But what im- pelled taking the party to the Grand 0sages,;Tjras the fact that Marquette's map, drawn in 1673, locates the Osages quite a distance from the Missouri rivier, and Du Pratz's map of Louisiana, compned ih: 1757, marks the "Missouris and Osages southwest of the Missouri river," andini719 M. De Bienville visited, the Osage nation at their village near the Osage river at "80 leagues" above its mouth, or in round numbers 220 miles, so by right angle lines starting at the mouth-of the Oaage river, in Osage county, Missouri, would make about 170 mUes to reach the forks of the Ossige, Bates county, Missouri, but as the crow flies it is od- ly 135 miles; and again, taking the river measurement and allowing for the crooks and bends, would make it located in Sates county, Missouri. Because of the trouble had in locating this village of the Osages m Bates count.y, Missouri, it will be well to make sure of this, for the first thought of those interested will naturally place the location at Harmony, Bates county, but that was where the Osag'e mission was established in 1820, and was not at the Great Osage viDage. Another reason for locat- ing the town in. the southwes,t corner of Bates county, is the fact that in 1808 the Osages claim pret^