Everything about The Platte Purchase totally explained
The
Platte Purchase in 1836 added to the state of Missouri making up its northwest corner.
The Platte Purchase includes
Andrew,
Atchison (545 square miles),
Buchanan,
Holt,
Nodaway and
Platte (420 square miles) counties.
These areas now include
Kansas City International Airport (and the northwest Kansas City suburbs),
St. Joseph, Missouri,
Mound City, Missouri and
Maryville, Missouri. Almost all of Missouri's portion of
Interstate 29 is within its bounds. It is an area almost as big as the combined size of
Delaware and
Rhode Island.
The purchase was presided over by
William Clark (of
Lewis & Clark fame) at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
At the time, the western border of Missouri was the equivalent of the mouth of the
Kaw River in Kansas City (94 degrees 36 minutes West longitude)
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Current maps show Platte County's, and all counties north, as having an eastern border further east than the border between Missouri and Kansas south of the river, which no longer conforms to the mouth of the Kaw River.
The tribes involved were the
Ioway tribe (with Chiefs
Mahaska and No Heart) and the combined entity of the
Sac and
Fox tribes.
The tribes were paid $7,500 for their land. The government was to "build five comfortable houses for each tribe, break up of land, fence of land, furnish a farmer, blacksmith, teacher, interpreter, provide agricultural implements, furnish livestock" and a host of other small items. The tribes agreed to move to reservations west of the Missouri River in what was to become
Kansas and
Nebraska. At this time there were approximately 1,000 Ioways, 500 Sacs, and 1,200 Foxes.
The tribes had earlier been promised to keep the land permanently. However white settlers (including most spectacularly
Joseph Robidoux) quickly broke the agreement.
Martin Van Buren proclaimed the area part of Missouri on
28 March 1837.
It is a
historic region of the United States.
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