The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke
Subtitle: 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 Indiams.
By: Comp. from various authentic sources, and documents, to which is subjoined, a summary of the Statistical view of the Indian nations from the official communications of Meriwether Lewis..
Contributors: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.; Clark, William, 1770-1838.; Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820.; United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
Publisher: Hubbard Lester, 1809.
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Indians of North America; Cree language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
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 continent 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. 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.