Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America
Subtitle: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain ; performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States
By: by Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Contributors: Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Published: 1811
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; United States -- Discovery and exploration; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; New Mexico -- Description and travel
Description: The report of the first United States expedition to the Southwest, here in the handsome first British edition. One of the most important American travel books, including accounts of Pike's explorations on the Mississippi, Red, and Arkansas rivers and his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. He also visited northern Texas, and Streeter considers his account excellent. The maps present in this edition are the "Map of the Interior Part of Louisiana" and a reduced version of the map of the Mississippi. The Pike expedition stands with the narratives of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important of the early books on western exploration.
Notes: "This is the standard English edition, prepared under the ... editorship of Dr. Thomas Rees, from a manuscript copy transmitted to England at the time that the original manuscript went to press in America."--Pike, Expeditions; ed. by Coues, 1895. The American edition, Baltimore, 1810, was issued under title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana .