MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808
Abstract:
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William Clark kept this diary on an expedition to make a treaty with the Osage Indians in the Missouri Territory. A sketch drawn under the September 16 entry is apparently a draft of Clark's Fort Osage map, while the first page of notes presents color scheme used on another draft. See Kate L. Gregg, Westward with Dragoons (1937: 48) for the map in printed version.
BOOK
Title:
Notes on California and the placers: how to get there, and what to do afterwards
Creator:
Delavan, James, -1891
Publication:
H. Long & Brother, New-York, 1850.
Notes:
Copyright by James Delavan, as proprietor.
Extent:
128 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
BOOK
Title:
The City of the saints: and across the Rocky mountains to California
Creator:
Burton, Richard FrancisSir, 1821-1890
Publication:
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, 1861.
Notes:
Adopted by Conrad K. Harper
Extent:
x, [2] 707, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations plates, folded map folded plan 22 cm
BOOK
Title:
Oregon and California in 1848: With an appendix, including recent and authentic information on the subject of the gold mines of California, and other valuable matter of interest to the emigrant, etc., with illustrations and a map : in two volumes
Creators:
Thornton, J. Quinn (Jessy Quinn), 1810-1888 | Edelstein, Irvin L. | Harper & Brothers | PBA Galleries
Publication:
Harper & Brothers, publishers, 82 Cliff street, New York, 1849.
Notes:
Publisher's advertisements at back.
Extent:
2 volumes : illustrations, folded map ; 21 cm
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
August 30 - December 12, 1803; 1810
Abstract:
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This item is Lewis' narrative journal of the river trip from Pittsburgh to the winter camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, together with meteorological observations. There are also entries by William Clark. Of the 126 leaves in this journal, 31 contain questions by Nicholas Biddle, with William Clark's replies, dated 1810. Includes parts II and III of Nicholas Biddle, "Notes on Indians...", and list of measurements of bones and other natural history specimens, in Lewis' hand. Also contains some sketches and two small maps.
BOOK
Title:
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, sec'y of war: under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Majr Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party. Comp. by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition
Creators:
James, Edwin, 1797-1861 | Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864 | Say, Thomas, 1787-1834 | United States War Department. | H.C. Carey & I. Lea (Firm) | Lyceum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)
Publication:
H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 1822-1823.
Notes:
Atlas, dated 1822, has title: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains performed in the years 1819-20, by order of the Honourable John C. Calhoun Secretary of War. Maps and plates. Volume 1: [4], 5, [3], 503, [1] pages (last page blank); volume 2: [6], 442, xcviii pages. "Astronomical and meteorological records, and vocabularies of Indian languages, taken on the expedition for exploring the Mississippi and its western waters, under the command of Major S.H. Long, of the United States' Topographical Engineers, in 1819 and 1820." (volume 2, pages [i]-lxxxviii at end), with a separate title page dated 1822.
Extent:
2 volumes 23 cm +