Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific ocean
Subtitle: Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806
By: by Captains Lewis and Clarke. ; published from the official report, and illustrated by a map of the route, and other maps
Contributors: Clark, William, 1770-1838; Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864; Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844; Allen, Paul, 1775-1826
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ...
Published: 1814
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
Subjects: Description and travel; Descriptions et voyages; Travel; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Lewis and Clark Expedition
Notes: Printed nearly verbatim from the original "History of the expedition" (written by N. Biddle and prepared for the press by P. Allen)--with omission of the preface, and appendix, and Jefferson's "Life of Capt. Lewis." Thomas Rees, the English editor, supplies a new preface, which also includes President Jefferson's Message of Feb. 19, 1806, and an extract of the Fort Mandan letter April "17th" [i.e. 7th] 1805, from Capt. Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to the Jefferson pamphlet of 1806, to the English ed. (1809) of the Apocrypha and to Gass's Journal.cf. Coues, History of the expedition, 1893

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