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New travels among the Indians of North America / being a compilation, taken partly from the communications already published, of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the President of the United States;and partly from other authors who travelled among the various tribes of Indians ... With a dictionary of the Indian tongue. Comp. by William Fisher, esqr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806).
- Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Indians of North America.
- Cree language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Cree language.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 3 preliminary leaves, vii unnumbered pages-xii pages, 13 unnumbered pages-300 pages : 2 portraits (double frontispiece) ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Published by James Sharan. J. Maxwell, printer, 1812.
- Notes:
- The pagination of 155 is inverted.
- A spurious account, of which the earliest American edition, Philadelphia, 1809, appeared under title: The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke ... The various spurious editions are made up of material taken principally from three sources: (a) Message from the President of the United States communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar, Washington, 1806; (b) Jonathan Carver's Travels through the interior parts of North America ... in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768; (c) Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage from Montreal ... through the continent of North America in the years 1789 and 1793.
- For detailed descriptions of this and other spurious editions cf. History of the expedition ... of Lewis and Clark, ed. by Elliott Coues, 1893, v.l, p.cviii-cxvii; and V. H. Paltsits' Bibliographical data, in Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed. by R. G. Thwaites, 1904, v.1, p.lxvi-lxx.
- Vocabulary of the Knisteneaux (Crees): p.133-141.
- U.S.iana F153a; Wagner-Camp 8 (note); Sabin 24509; Shaw and Shoemaker 26261.
- OCLC:
- 7673965
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