The Platte River is part of the Platte River watershed

His testimony will allow Parisian cartographer Guillaume de L’Isle to publish the first map of the region, now kept by the Historical Service of the Navy, in Vincennes. In addition to the “Ecanzé River”, the future Kansas River, the explorer wrote, “is the wide river called by the French and by the ferocious Nibraskier”. The word for adaptation of Nebraska, meaning “flat water” in the Oto language. The river – formerly called the “Panis river” in reference to a local tribe, the Pawnees, b...