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The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) / To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. — Zebulon Montgomery Pike

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) / To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 528 pages

The first volume of Zebulon Montgomery Pike's travel journals follows his early nineteenth-century expeditions from the Mississippi River toward its headwaters, through the Louisiana Territory and toward New Spain. It combines daily notes, route observations and encounters with Indigenous peoples and settlers. Listen for a firsthand record of exploration and the landscapes of the early American West.

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Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original
document have been preserved. Obvious typographical
errors have been corrected.
In Table D on page 283, a symbol for "per" has been
replaced with the word per.
Footnote numbering, which in the original restarted at
"1" with every chapter, has been prepended with OP
(Original Preface), NP (New Preface), M (Memoir), or
the Roman chapter number (e.g. VI-7 for the 7th note of
chapter 6).
In Footnote M-6, 1892 should probably be 1792.
On page 216, the barometer reading for August 25th
seems to be missing a digit.
This book is the first of three volumes. Volume 2 is
available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/43775.
Volume 3 is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/
etext/43776. It contains an Index and Maps.
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Pike's Expeditions.

VOLUME I.
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Nos. 1 to 150 on Handmade Paper.
Nos. 151 to 1150 on Fine Book Paper.
No.................
Z. M. Pike
THE EXPEDITIONS
OF
Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
To Headwaters of the Mississippi River,
Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain,
During the Years 1805-6-7.
A NEW EDITION,

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BY

ELLIOTT COUES,

Late Captain and Assistant Surgeon, United States Army,

Late Secretary and Naturalist, United States Geological Survey,

Member of the National Academy of Sciences,

Editor of Lewis and Clark,

etc., etc., etc.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VLjƯ. I.

Memoir of the Author—Mississippi Voyage.

NEW YORK:

FRANCIS P. HARPER.

1895.

CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1895,

BY

FRANCIS P. HARPER,

New York.

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Contents

  1. THE EXPEDITIONS OF Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
  2. Dedication.
  3. CONTENTS OF VOL I.
  4. PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION.
  5. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
  6. MEMOIR OF ZEBULON MONTGOMERY PIKE. BY ELLIOTT COUES.
  7. CHAPTER I. ITINERARY: ST. LOUIS TO ST. PAUL, AUGUST 9TH-SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1805.
  8. CHAPTER II. ITINERARY, CONTINUED: ST. PAUL TO LEECH LAKE, SEPTEMBER 22D, 1805-JANUARY 31ST, 1806.
  9. CHAPTER III. ITINERARY, CONCLUDED: LEECH LAKE TO ST. LOUIS, FEBRUARY 1ST-APRIL 30TH, 1806.
  10. CHAPTER IV. WEATHER DIARY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[IV-1]
  11. CHAPTER V. CORRESPONDENCE AND CONFERENCES.[V-1]
  12. CHAPTER VI. COMMERCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[VI-1]
  13. CHAPTER VII. GEOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[VII-1]
  14. CHAPTER VIII. ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[VIII-1]
  15. CHAPTER IX. VOCABULARY OF MISSISSIPPIAN PLACE-NAMES.[IX-1]
  16. FOOTNOTES
  17. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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