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Title

  • James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, 1819-1820.

Other Title

  • Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820
  • Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

Names

  • James, Edwin, 1797-1861.
  • Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864.
  • Say, Thomas, 1787-1834.
  • United States. War Department.
  • Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.

Created / Published

  • Cleveland, Ohio : The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905.

Headings

  • -  West (U.S.)--Description and travel
  • -  Rocky Mountains--Discovery and exploration
  • -  Ohio River--Description and travel
  • -  Indians of North America--West (U.S.)
  • -  Indians of North America--Languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
  • -  Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820

Notes

  • -  "Preliminary notice reprinted from ... Philadelphia edition, 1823. Text reprinted from ... London edition, 1823."--v. 14, p. [29].
  • -  "Calculations of observations by Long and Swift reprinted from ... Philadelphia edition, 1823; Vocabularies of Indian languages, by Say, reprinted from ... Philadelphia edition, 1823."--v. 17, p. [9].
  • -  Includes facsimile of t.-p. of 1823 London edition with title: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party.

Medium

  • 4 v. : 9 plates, folded facsimiles, folded diagrams ; 25 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F592 .T54 vol. 14, etc.

Source Collection

  • Early western travels, 1748-1846. v. 14-17

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05026896

OCLC Number

  • 1170683

Online Format

  • image
  • online text
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

James, Edwin, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say, United States War Department, and Reuben Gold Thwaites. James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, -1820. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/05026896/.

APA citation style:

James, E., Long, S. H., Say, T., United States War Department & Thwaites, R. G. (1905) James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, -1820. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/05026896/.

MLA citation style:

James, Edwin, et al. James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, -1820. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/05026896/>.