Complex sentence: American War, the expeditions of Kearny (1846), Cooke (1847) and Graham (1847) passed through the area but found no village, only Graham found corn stubble on the riverside with which to graze his cattle.
Split into simpler sentences: American War, the expeditions of Kearny (1846), Cooke (1847) and Graham (1847) passed through the area but found no village. Only Graham found corn stubble on the riverside with which to graze his cattle.