Red Buttes - Arrived at Fort Laramie on September Loth, and at the council ground, " thirty-seven miles below Fort Laramie," at the mouth of Horse creek, on the 11th.
Here Father De Smet remained, assisting at the council, and giving religious instructions to the Indians, until September 24th, when he left for St. Louis in company with Messrs. D. D. Mitchell, Robert Campbell, Thomas Fitzpatrick and others - Traveled by the usual route to Fort Kearney, where they parted company, Father De Smet and Major Fitzpatrick, with a deputation of Indians, branching off to visit St. Mary's Mission on the Kansas river - October 15th Father De Smet reached Kansas City where he took steamer and reached St. Louis on the 21st of the same month.
Distance traveled, 5,457 miles.