Leaving St.Louis and talking with Native Americans

On July 15, 1806, Pike and crew sailed from a landing north of St. Louis on the Missouri River and headed west. A month or so later they arrived at the  village of the Little Osage to return the 51 Indians and to have a  meeting with the chiefs of the tribe. After two weeks of negotiations about trading and working with the U.S government, Pike and his men moved on, looking for the Pawnee Nation  and their villages. After three weeks, the Pawnee were found  and more negotiations of the same nature occurred.  According to Pike's notes, he smoked the pipe of peace with Pawnee, Osage and Kansas Indians and felt he was doing a pretty good job of establishing peaceful relations, until it came time to leave the nations. That's when he found out that the Pawnee didn't want him to go any further west. To complete his mission, Pike threatened the Pawnee, saying that even though his men where outnumbered by the Pawnee they would be willing to fight. Also, if Pikes men where killed, the U.S would send many more soldiers to destroy the Pawnee. After considering this, the Pawnee allowed Pike and his  to move on.