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Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XVI
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 XVI
Part III of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition,
1819-1820
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Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1905
COPYRIGHT 1905, BY
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVI
CHAPTER I [VIII of Vol. II, original ed.]--Excursion to
the Summit of the Peak. Mineral Springs. Coquimbo
Owl. Encampment on the Arkansa 11