wrote that the Padouca maintained permanent villages. They sent out regular hunting parties, in groups of 50-100 households. As one hunting party returned, another would leave, so that the village was occupied at all times. They journeyed up to five or six days travel from their village to hunt. The Padouca sowed corn and pumpkins. They obtained tobacco and horses from trade with the Spanish in New Mexico in exchange for tanned buffalo skins. The explorer noticed that some of the Apache still used flint knives for skinning buffalo and felling trees, an indicator that not much European trade had reached them. Within a few years after Bourgmont's visit, the Padouca or Dismal River people whom he had met in Kansas were gone, pushed south by the Comanche. See also Dismal River culture sites Cedar Point Village, near Limon, east of Denver, Colorado Franktown Cave, south of Denver, Colorado Jicarilla Apache List of prehistoric sites in Colorado Plains Apache Prehistory of Colorado References Archaeology of the United States Archaeological cultures of North America Hunter-gatherers of the United States Native American history of Colorado Post-Archaic period in North America Prehistoric cultures in Nebraska Pre-Columbian cultures Prehistoric cultures in Colorado