The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, by order of the government of the United States
Subtitle: performed in the years 1804, 1805, & 1806 : being upward 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
By: compiled from various authentic sources, and documents ; to which is subjoined, a summary of the Statistical view of the Indian nations, from the official communication of Meriwether Lewis ...
Contributors: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.; Clark, William, 1770-1838.; Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 538, no. 5422.
Publisher: Hubbard Lester
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Indians of North America.; Cree language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Travels of Capts. Lewis and Clarke.
Notes: Map wanting.

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 coninent 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. Paitsits's Bibliographical data, in Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed. by R.G. Thwaites, 1904, v. 1, p. lxvi-lxx.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Howes, U.S.IANA, no. L.321.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (Western Americana ; reel 538, no. 5422)