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The travels of Capts. Lewis and Clarke from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; performed in the years 1804, 1805 & 1806, by order of the government of the United States. Containing delineations of the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the Indians
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The travels of Capts. Lewis and Clarke from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; performed in the years 1804, 1805 & 1806, by order of the government of the United States. Containing delineations of the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the Indians, comp. from various authentic sources, and original documents, and a summary of the Statistical view of the Indian nations, from the official communication of Meriwether Lewis. Illustrated with a map of the country, inhabited by the western tribes of Indians.
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London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
Physical Description
ix, 309 p. front. (fold. map) 22 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN CE77 I53: Binder's title: Indian tracts. From the collection of George Brinley.
Notes
A spurious account. 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 1789-1793.
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. 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. 133-142.
Eberstadt no. II-76.
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New travels among the Indians
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English
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June 01, 2002
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