Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States,... performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the year 1820

Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States,... performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the year 1820

Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition to locate the Mississippi River's sources, to explore the Great Lakes region, and to describe its significant topographical features, natural history, and mineral wealth. In this journal, he describes his preliminary journey from New York to Detroit, where the expedition embarks for Michilimackinac and presses on to Sault de Ste. Marie and Fond du Lac. Eventually the explorers locate Lake Itasca in Minnesota, where the Mississippi originates.

Schoolcraft, Henry Row

Albany: E. & E. Hosford

1821