Journals relating to Montana and adjacent regions, 1808-1812.
Subtitle: Transcribed from a photostatic copy of the original mss.
By: and edited with an introd. by M. Catherine White.
Series: Montana. State University Missoula Studies -- v. 1.
Publisher: Montana State University Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Missoula
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Description: This is an edited version of Thompson's original journals kept at the time of his travels. Thompson's Narrative was an expanded and rewritten version of these Journals leaving out some details. Presents brief observations on Salish and Kootenai Indians including their camp sites, character, enemies, dwellings, knowledge of Catholicism, etc.
Notes: "Five hundred copies printed."

Bibliography: p. 257-294.