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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 : with a statistical account of the countries adjacent, February 19, 1806, printed by order of the Senate.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806).
- Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--Discovery and exploration.
- United States.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Ouachita River (Ark. and La.).
- Red River (Ky.).
- Hot Springs (Ark.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- 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
- Contents:
- Message. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
- Extract of a letter from Captain Meriwether Lewis, to the President of the United States, dated Fort Mandan, April 17th, 1805
- A statistical view of the Indian nations inhabiting the territory of Louisiana and the countries adjacent to its northern and western boundaries [by Meriwether Lewis]
- Historical sketches of the several Indian tribes in Louisiana, south of the Arkansas River, and between the Mississippi and River Grand [signed: John Sibley]
- To General Henry Dearborn, secretary of war. Sir, you request me to give you some account of Red River, and the country adjacent ... [signed: John Sibley]
- Observations made in a voyage commencing at St. Catharine's Landing, on the east bank of the Mississippi, proceeding downwards to the mouth of Red River, and from thence ascending that river, the Black River, and the Washita River, as high as the hot springs in the proximity of the last mentioned river, extracted from the journals of William Dunbar, Esquire, and Doctor Hunter
- Meteorological observations made by Mr. Dunbar and Doctor Hunter, in their voyage up the Red and Washita rivers, in the year 1804.
- Notes:
- "Map of the Washita River in Louisiana from the hot springs to the confluence of the Red River with the Mississippi. Laid down from the journal & survey of Wm. Dunbar Esq'r. in the year 1804 by Nicholas King."--[1] folded leaf. Signed: Engrav'd by Wm. Kneass Philad.
- Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.
- OCLC:
- 899258675
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