After leaving Mammoth Cave, we made the journey to St. Louis, where we were to spend two nights. Our hearty band at this time consisted of myself, my brother Chuck, and his wife Lucie. Neither of our wives wished to be gone the entire 5 weeks, so each of them was around for only about half of the journey. the three things we wished to do in the St. Louis were to visit the Cahokia Mounds across the river in Illinois, visit Camp Dubois, and visit the two great cemeteries in St. Louis, wherein are buried many notables, including William Clark. We started with Cahokia Mounds. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. At its peak it probably included nearly 20,000 inhabitants, making it larger than any subsequent city in
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