History
The Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered the Elkhorn River near its confluence with the Platte, and referred to it as the 'Come de Cerf'. Located a few miles north of the confluence is the Elkhorn Crossing Recreation Area. This public park, operated by the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, marks the location where thousands of immigrants in the nineteenth century, bound for the west, camped while waiting to cross the river. For years Logan Fontenelle and Joseph LaFlesche, young leaders of the Omaha people, owned the ferry that carried people, wagons and animals between the two river banks.
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