This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Long, Atkinson Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4241.1 Message Board Post: MISSOURI INTELLIGENCER. Franklin, Missouri Territory. November 5, 1819.--Major Long, Commander of the Scientific Exposition, arrived at this place on the 21st inst., from The Council Bluffs, and has obligingly favored us with the following particulars: "The U.S. steamboat, WESTERN ENGINEER, arrived at the Council Bluffs on the 17th of September......Col. Atkinson's expedition arrived on the 29th of September, and having selected a position for winter quarters, debarked on the 4th of October and commenced building quarters. On the 10th, a council was held with the Pawnee Indians who had been previously summoned for that purpose, at which Col. Atkinson and several officers of his command attended by a guard of soldiers were present..... "Major Long on his way down met several boats laden with provisions and other stores for the troops at The Bluffs and about 50 miles below the river Platte passed the wreck of a keelboat sunk with a cargo of ordinance and quartermaster stores on board, in about 12 feet water. She had run upon a snag under sail, was stove and filled in so short a time that those on board had but just time enough to make their escape without being able to save anything on board except a little private baggage. "The steamboat EXPEDITION lay at Cow Island, her cargo having been taken on board of keels as was also that of the JOHNSON, which lay disabled 15 miles below the Kansas River."