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Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean : performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806
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- by Captains Lewis and Clarke
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- English
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- London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814
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- xxiv, 663 pages : maps (some folded) ; 31 cm
- OCLC
- ocm04910831
- "Published from the official report, and illustrated by a map of the route, and other maps."--T.p.
- "J. G. Barnard, Skinner Street, London"--Colophon.
- Printed nearly verbatim from the original "History of the expedition" (written by N. Biddle and prepared for the press by P. Allen) with omission of the preface, the appendix, and Jefferson's "Life of Capt. Lewis". Thomas Rees, the English editor, supplies a new preface, which also includes President Jefferson's Message of Feb. 19, 1806, and an extract of the Fort Mandan letter of April "17th" [i.e. 7th] 1805, from Capt. Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to the Jefferson pamphlet of 1806, to the English ed. (1800) of the Apocrypha, and Gass' Journal. cf. Coues, History of the expedition, 1893.
- Includes "A map of Lews and Clark's track across the western portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, by order of the executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6, copied by Samuel Lewis from the original drawing of Wm. Clark", signed "Neele sculp."
- Sabin, 40829.
- Coues, Elliot. History of the expedition (1893), v. 1, p. cxxv.