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Meeting of Frontiers


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History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States / prepared for the press by Paul Allen ; in two volumes.

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.

OTHER TITLES
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Philadelphia : Bradford and Inskeep ; New York : Abm. H. Inskeep, 1814.

NOTES
"Mr. [Nicholas] Biddle's name does not appear ... It is said, however, by Robert T. Conrad, that Mr. Biddle actually wrote the two volumes from Lewis and Clarke's notes"--Appletons, Cycl. of Amer. Biog.

Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 p.; v. 2: ix, 522 p., [6] leaves of plates, 1 folded.

Shaw & Shoemaker 31924

Appendix contains: Observations and relfections on the present and future state of upper Louisiana, in relation to the government of the Indian nations ... -- A summary statement of the rivers, creeks, and most remarkable places, their distances from each other, etc. ... -- Estimate of the western Indians -- Thermometrical observations ... Remarks and reflections.

SUBJECTS
Lewis and Clark Expedition--(1804-1806)
West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
Missouri River--Description and travel.
Columbia River--Description and travel.
West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
Lewis, Meriwether,--1774-1809--Travel--West (U.S.)
Clark, William,--1770-1838--Travel--West (U.S.)

RELATED NAMES
Clark, William, 1770-1838.
Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844.
Allen, Paul, 1775-1826.
Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
2 v. : maps ; 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
F592.4 1814

DIGITAL ID
( Volume 1 ) mtfrb 01477b http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/mtfrb.01477b
( Volume 2 ) mtfrb 01477a http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/mtfrb.01477a

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