Title: Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America
First published: 1810
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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, Exploring expeditions, Etiquette, Discoveries in geography, American, Descriptions et voyages, Découverte et exploration, Travel
Places: United States, New Mexico, Mississippi River, West (U.S.)