In the Treaty of Fort Clark, the Osage had ceded all land east of Fort Clark near Sibley, Missouri.
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While in the U.S. House of Representatives he worked on several key issues of importance to Missouri, such as opposing the Tariff of 1842 and helping block Federal settlement of the Missouri-Iowa border dispute, a.k.a. the Honey War.