Summary narrative of an exploratory expedition to the sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820
Subtitle: resumed and completed, by the discovery of its origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832
By: by authority of the United States : with appendixes, comprising the original report on the copper mines of Lake Superior, and observations on the geology of the lake basins, and the summit of the Mississippi, together with all the official reports and scientific papers of both expeditions ; by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo, and Company
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Sources; Description and travel; Discoveries in geography; American; Discovery and exploration; Natural history; Indians of North America; Geology; Ojibwa language
Notes: The first part, Narrative of the expedition of 1820 (p. 37-220), is a revised edition of Schoolcraft's "Narrative journal of travels through the north western regions of the United States." Albany, 1821. The second part, Discovery of the actual source of the Mississippi river (p. [221]-274), is an abridgement of his "Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi valley to Itaska Lake." New York, 1834.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.