Chapter I: American Explorers Series

Fowler’s Journal.

THE JOURNAL
OF
JACOB FOWLER

_NARRATING AN ADVENTURE_

FROM
ARKANSAS THROUGH THE INDIAN TERRITORY,
OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, COLORADO,
AND NEW MEXICO,
TO THE
SOURCES OF RIO GRANDE DEL NORTE,
1821-22

EDITED, WITH NOTES
BY
ELLIOTT COUES

NEW YORK
FRANCIS P. HARPER
1898

COPYRIGHT, 1898,
BY
FRANCIS P. HARPER

DEDICATED

TO

REUBEN T. DURRETT, A. M., LL. D.,

NESTOR OF KENTUCKY HISTORIANS
AND
PRESIDENT OF THE FILSON CLUB,

IN ADMIRATION OF HIS PERSONAL CHARACTER AND IN
REMEMBRANCE OF PLEASANT HOURS PASSED
IN HIS HOSPITABLE HOME.