Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823
By: By order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of Stephen H. Long, major, U.S.T.E. Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Colhoun ...
Contributors: Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.; Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.; Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834.; Colhoun, James Edward.; Lovell, Joseph, 1788-1836.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 295, no. 2974.1.
Publisher: H.C. Carey & I. Lea
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Dakota Indians.; Ojibwa Indians.; Indians of North America -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Northwest, Old -- Description and travel.; Minnesota -- Description and travel.; Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.); Manitoba -- Description and travel.; United States -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: Half-title of the original: Major Long's second expedition.

Appendix (v. 2, p. [253-459]): pt. 1. Natural history: Zoology, by Thomas Say; Botany; a catalogue of plants collected in the north western territory by Mr. Thomas Say, in the year, 1823, by L.D. de Schweinitz.--pt. II. Astronomy; astronomical observations and calculations made in 1823, during the expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, &c. by J.E. Colhoun, astronomer, &c. to the expedition.--pt. III. Meteorology; meteorological register for the year 1822; exhibiting the daily mean temperature of the weather from observations taken at several of the military posts of the United States, by Joseph Lovell, M.D., surgeon general of the United States'army.--pt. IV. Vocabularies of Indian languages [Sauk, Sioux, Chippewa and Cree]

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Eberstadt no. IV-1064.

Howes, U.S.IANA, no. K.20.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. reels. 35 mm. (Western Americana, reel 295, no. 2974.1)