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Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States.

Title
Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States.
Author
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813
Publication
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.

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Additional Authors
Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864
Description
xx, 436 p. 2 maps (1 fold.); 30 cm.
Subject
  • Tobacco > Folklore
  • Calumets
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel
  • United States > Discovery and exploration
Note
  • Sabin 62837 /
  • Numerous references to tobacco use among the Indians and to pipes in Indian customs and ceremonies, e. g., p. 23: "[The chief] had prepared a pipe (instead of a letter) to present me, to show to all the other bands of the Sioux above ... "
  • "This is the standard English edition, prepared under the ... editorship of Dr. Thomas Rees, from a manuscript copy transmitted to England at the time that the original manuscript went to press in America." - Pike, Expeditions, edited by E. Coues, 1895. The American edition, Baltimore 1810, was issued with title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana."
  • Provenance: M. Gage (autograph: "Got from M. N. Mahon, May 15th, 1811")
Call Number
Arents S 0918
OCLC
  • 4974133
  • NYPG744701992-B
Author
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813.
Title
Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States.
Imprint
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811.
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Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864.
Research Call Number
Arents S 0918
*KF 1811 (Pike, Z. M. Exploratory travels)
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