An account of a voyage up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to its source : made under the orders of the War Department, by Lieut. Pike, of the United States Army, in the years 1805 and 1806 - ECU Libraries Catalog

An account of a voyage up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to its source : made under the orders of the War Department, by Lieut. Pike, of the United States Army, in the years 1805 and 1806. / Compiled from Mr. Pike's journal.

Author/creator	King, N. (Nicholas), 1771-1812
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], [1807?]
Description	68 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley. Mississippi River--Description and travel. United States--Discovery and exploration.

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Other author/creator	Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813. Account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi.
Other author/creator	King, N. (Nicholas), 1771-1812 cartographer.
Other author/creator	Nau, Anthony, cartographer.
Other author/creator	Shallus, Francis engraver.
Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 13393. ^A575643
General note	Told in the third person. This paraphrase of Pike's journal seems to be the work of Nicholas King. The manuscript copy in the Library of Congress, Division of Manuscripts, is in the handwriting of King. Its title ends with the statement, "Compiled from Mr. Pike's journal by Nich. King." The last three words are partly erased.
General note	"Map of the Mississippi River from its source to the mouth of the Missouri: laid down from the notes of Lieut't. Z.M. Pike by Anthony Nau. Reduced, and corrected by the astronomical observations of Mr. Thompson at its source; and of Capt'n. M. Lewis, where it receives the waters of the Missouri. By Nich's. King."--folded leaf. Signed: Engraved by Francis Shallus, Philadelphia.
General note	Pike's journal was first published in 1810 under the title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi ...
General note	Imprint suggested by Shaw & Shoemaker.
General note	"Extract of a letter from N. Boilvin, Indian agent, to the secretary of war, dated St. Louis, October 6th, 1806."--p. 68.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 13393
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13393).
Genre/form	Maps Mississippi River.

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