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The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke : by order of the government of the United States, performed in the years 1804, 1805, & 1806, being upwards of three thousand miles, from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri, and Columbia rivers, to the Pacifick ocean : containing an account of the Indian tribes, who inhabit the western part of the continent unexplored, and unknown before. With copious delineations of the manners, customs religion, &c. of the Indiams comp. from various authentic sources, and documents, to which is subjoined, a summary of the Statistical view of the Indian nations from the official communications of Meriwether Lewis
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia. Lester. 1809.
- Philadelphia.
- Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Indians of North America.
- Cree language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Cree language.
- The West--Description and travel.
- The West.
- Physical Description:
- xii, [13]-300 p. : ill. (folded map) 5 plates ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Hubbard Lester, 1809.
- Notes:
- The earliest American edition of the spurious account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is 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 contents of this and other spurious editions, cf. History of the expedition ... of Lewis and Clark, ed. by Elliott Coues, 1893, v. 1, p. cviii-cxvii; and V.H. Paltsit's 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.
- Local Notes:
- Map wanting.
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