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Downstream of Mosby, it collects the East Fork Fishing River, which rises at the town of Lawson and flows generally southward through Ray and Clay Counties, past the town of Excelsior Springs .

In 1808, William Clark of the Lewis And Clark Expedition established Fort Osage along the Missouri near the mouth of the Fishing River. The fort became a center of trade among European settlers and Native Americans in the region.


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