1855 Schoolcraft
Mississippi River Expedition Native American INDIAN Tribes RARE
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early American
ethnologist and expert on Native American culture. He was well-known for his
Congress-commissioned study on United States Indian tribes beginning in 1851.
However, prior to his studies on Native American tribes, Schoolcraft set out on
an expedition to discover the source of the Mississippi River through Detroit
and find the boundary between the United States and Canada. In 1821, the year
following the expedition, Schoolcraft published a record of his excursion under
the title ‘Narrative Journal of Travels
Through the Northwestern Regions’.
This 1855 edition of that work was published
under the title ‘Summary Narrative of an
Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River’.
Field says of this work:
“The author has interwoven with his narrative a large number of
incidents of Indian history, personal experience among the tribes he visited,
and sketches of their principal characteristics, derived from persons living
among them.”
Item number: #19992
Price: $499
SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe
Summary narrative of an
exploratory expedition to the sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 :
resumed and completed, by the discovery of its origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832
Philadelphia : Lippincott,
Grambo, and Company, 1855. First edition.
Details:
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Collation: Complete with all pages
o xx, 17-596
o Several
in-text illustrations throughout
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References: Howes S 192; Sabin 77878; Graff 3698; Field 1363
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Cloth
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Size: ~9.25in X 6in (23.5cm x 15.5cm)
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