Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XXIII
Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive
of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by
Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's
New Discovery," etc.
Volume XXIII
Part II of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the
Interior of North America, 1832-1834
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Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906
COPYRIGHT 1906, BY
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIII
[Part II of Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America]
CHAPTER XVI--First stay at Fort Union, from June 24th
to July 6, 1833 11
CHAPTER XVII--Voyage from Fort Union to Muscleshell
River, from the 6th to the 28th of July 26
CHAPTER XVIII--Voyage from the Muscleshell River to
Fort Mc Kenzie, from July 28th to August 9th 60
CHAPTER XIX--Description of Fort Mc Kenzie and the Environs,
and of the Indian population living there 90
CHAPTER XX--Stay at Fort Mc Kenzie, from August 9th to
September 14th 123
CHAPTER XXI--Return from Fort Mc Kenzie to Fort Union,
from the 14th to the 29th of September 168
CHAPTER XXII--Second residence at Fort Union, from September
29th to October 30th 188
CHAPTER XXIII--Voyage from Fort Union to Fort Clarke,
from October 30th to November 8th 207
CHAPTER XXIV--Description of Fort Clarke and the Environs 222
CHAPTER XXV--Account of the Mandan Indians 252
CHAPTER XXVI--Observations on the Tribe of the Manitaries,
or Gros Ventres 367
CHAPTER XXVII--A few words respecting the Arikkaras 386
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXIII
(The following are text cuts in original)
A Grosventre dagger 105
Blackfoot parchment bags 105
Horn drinking cup 105
Talc pipes 105
Plan of women's medicine dance 113
Badge of Prairie-dog band 113
Badge of Raven band 113
Pipe-lighting stick 113
Indians seated before Fort Mc Kenzie 129
Head of _Cervus macrotis_ 129
Head of _Antilocapra Ord._ 247
Head of _Canis latrans_ 247
Hand looking-glass 267
Cylinder of planks 267
Mandan huts 267
Mandan bed 285
A Mandan letter, in hieroglyphics 285
Child's dart, of stag-horn 285
Stone club, with handle 355
A knotted wooden club 355
Arikkara bird-cage gourds 355
Map of neighborhood of Fort Clark 363
PART II OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED'S, TRAVELS
IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA
Reprint of chapters xvi-xxvii of London edition: 1843
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF
NORTH AMERICA, IN THE
YEARS 1832, 1833, AND 1834
[PART II]