Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XXVII
[Illustration: A View of the Rocky Mountains]
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 XXVII
Part II of Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837; and
De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842
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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 XXVII
I
THE FAR WEST; OR, A TOUR BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS. Embracing Outlines of
Western Life and Scenery; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient
Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, etc., etc. (Chapters
xxxiii-xli of Vol. II, completing the publication). _Edmund Flagg_
Author's Table of Contents 15
Text 19
II
LETTERS AND SKETCHES: with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among
the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. _Pierre Jean de Smet, S.
J._
Author's Preface 129
Text: