The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke [microform] : 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 Indians /
Lewis, Meriwether,1774-1809.
Clark, William,1770-1838.
Carver, Jonathan,1710-1780.
Mackenzie, Alexander,1764-1820.
Philadelphia : Hubbard Lester,
1809.
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 the 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. Paltaits' Bibliographical data, in Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed, by R. G. Thwaites, 1904, v. 1, p. ixvi-ixx.
Vocabulary of the Knisteneaux (Crees): p. 122-141.
Sabin 96499
Microfiche.
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
Indians of North America
Cree language