Second Dragoon Expedition

Traveling first up the Platte River they made contact with the Otoe, Omaha, Grand Pawnee, and Arickaree tribes.

At Bent's Fort the expedition held councils with the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Black Feet, Gros Ventres, and others.

On August 12, 1835 the Dragoons began the return march from Bent's Fort, following the Santa Fe Trail eastward.

Between Council Grove and Hundred and Ten Mile Creek the expedition experienced its only loss, the death of 23 year old, Private Samuel Hunt on September 11, 1835.

The colonel directed him to be buried on a high prairie ridge, and a stone placed at the head of the grave, with his name and regiment engraved thereon.

Map accompanying Colonel Henry Dodge 's 1835 report to the U.S. Congress about the expedition
Interior of Bent's Old Fort.
Big Elk, an Omaha leader.