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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Early Western Travels 1748–1846 Volume XVII- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Early Western Travels 1748–1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains F592 T54 Copy 2 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Two Copies Received JUL 14 1905 Copyright Entry July 17, 1905 CLASS a XXc. No: 121878 COPY A Copyright 1905, by THE ARTHUR H....- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII CHAPTER I [IX of Vol. III, original ed.] — Journey from Belle Point to Cape Girardeau. Cherokee Indians. Osage War. Regulator's Settlements of White River II CHAPTER II...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME XVII Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 41 degrees North; and on the Parallel of Latitude 35 degrees North 185- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains PART IV OF JAMES'S ACCOUNT OF S. H. LONG'S EXPEDITION, 1819–1820 Chapters ix, x, and xi, General Description of the Country, and Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology, reprinted from Volume III...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains EXPEDITION FROM PITTSBURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS [PART IV] [124] CHAPTER I [IX]1 1 Chapter ix in volume iii of the original London edition. For the following topics mentioned in this chapter,...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 12 and Oakly, two of the engagees whose services were no longer required. On the 20th, Doctor James and Lieutenant Swift departed in company with Captain Kearny,4 who had visited the post...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 13 discharges very little water. The small path we followed lay for the most part through open woods of post oak, black jack, and hickory, occasionally traversing a narrow prairie. In these...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 14 carefully removing the top of one of the hives, took out as much of the comb as he wished, and then replaced the top without killing or injuring the bees. In...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 15 done with charcoal, and sometimes touched with a little vermilion, appeared to be historic records, designed to perpetuate, or at least to communicate the account of some exploit in hunting, a...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 16 the north-west, rising in the form of a parallelogram to an elevation of about twelve hundred feet.9 Its sides are abrupt, and in many places, particularly towards the summit, perpendicular. The...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 17 Tom Graves. Though entirely an Indian in his character and habits, he has the colour and features of an European, and it was not without some difficulty we could be made...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 18 are almost exclusively agriculturists, raising large crops of corn and cotton, enough for clothing their families, which they manufacture in their own houses. After dinner we proceeded a few miles, taking...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 19 Here we found the gentlemen of our party who had left the garrison before us. The chiefs of the Cherokee nation had called a grand council, to meet at Point Pleasant...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 20 taken measures to quiet the suspicions of their enemies, by occasional messages, professing a peaceable disposition on their part. When they had arrived near the village, they [131] sent a deputation...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 21 to be held, concerning the manner of restoring them to the Osages. In the winter of 1817–18, some of the leading men of both nations had been summoned to a council...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 22 murder on Red river, in exchange for the women and children then prisoners with the Cherokees. The Cherokees were taught the culture of cotton many years since, by Governor Blount13 of...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 23 invested with an almost unlimited authority.14 A few days previous to our arrival at Point Pleasant, a young man had been apprehended by one of these bands of regulators, on suspicion...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 24 Point Pleasant. It consists of no more than [134] five or six cabins, but is the residence of the venerable Tikatok, who, since the death of Tallantusky in 1817, has been...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 25 a sickly appearance. Harding's ferry is about four hundred miles distant from the confluence of White river and the Mississippi.16 White river is navigable for keel-boats at high water to this...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 26 mountainous region. Many small portions of valuable land are included in the territory lately ceded to the Cherokees, but by far the greater part is mountainous and barren, and unfit for...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 27 rivers, consider them as nearly of equal length, and as heading near each other; whereas the entire extent of country drained by White river, compared to that of the Arkansa, is...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 28 Numerous settlements have heretofore been formed on the lands contiguous to White river, and several in the portion above the Chattahoochee mountain on the south side; but all these lands having...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 29 healthfulness of many situations, and the vicinity of navigable rivers and other local advantages, make amends for the want of exuberant fertility in the soil. The same remark is applicable to...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 30 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 30 “I myself saw a rivulet whose waters rolled down gold dust.”22 We are informed by Schoolcraft, that granite exists about the sources of the St. Francis, which are near those of...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 31 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 31 period, which we know to exist in these mountains. We only intend to give it as our opinion, that there has as yet been no foundation in actual discovery for the...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 32 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 32 acres was often seen almost covered with them. Many recent settlers, indulging the disposition to indolence which seizes upon almost every man who [140] fixes his residence in these remote forests,...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 33 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 33 forest, rather than submit to the confinement and monotony of an agricultural life. They are therefore, of necessity, kept somewhat in advance of those settlers who intend a permanent residence in...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 34 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 34 instances, where, of a family of eight or ten, not a single individual was capable of attending to the services of the household, or of administering to the wants of his...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 35 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 35 of uncommon magnitude. Spring river unites with another, called Eleven Point, near the little town of Davidsonville, the seat of justice for Lawrence county, and flows thence nearly due east, two...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 36 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 36 stratum in the direction of the general inclination of the country, at length meet with the nucleus of the Ozark mountains, traversing the secondary strata like a mineral dike, and are...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 37 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 37 The Illinois, and the great eastern tributary of the Osage, [144] receive numerous streams from the western slope of the Ozark mountains, but they traverse a region hitherto very imperfectly known....- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 38 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 38 river, but one in many respects resembling Black river. It rises in the high lands, about one hundred miles to the westward of St. Genevieve in Missouri, and receiving, before it...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 39 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 39 covered with heavy forests of cypress, and wholly unfit to become the residence of men. This swamp, and the country about the sources of Black river and the St. Francis, appear...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 40 of Part 4
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 | Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 40 village. Whips and heels were exercised with unusual animation, but in a great measure without effect, until we dismounted; when by dint of coaxing, pushing, kicking, and whipping, we at length...- Contributor: United States. War Department - James, Edwin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - Say, Thomas - Long, Stephen Harriman
- Date: 1905-01-01