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Early Western Travels

1748-1846

Volume XVII

Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the bestand rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptiveof the Aborigines and Social andEconomic Conditions in the Middleand Far West, during the Periodof Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "OriginalJournals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin'sNew Discovery," etc.

Volume XVII

Part IV of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition1819-1820

Cleveland, OhioThe Arthur H. Clark Company1905

The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII

CHAPTER I [IX of Vol. III, original ed.]—Journey from Belle Point to Cape Girardeau. Cherokee Indians. Osage War. Regulator's Settlements of White River	11
CHAPTER II [X of Vol. III]—Hot Springs of the Washita. Granite of the Cove. Saline River	42
CHAPTER III [XI of Vol. III]—Red River. Exploring Expedition of 1806. Return to the Arkansa. Earthquakes	61
A General Description of the Country traversed by the exploring Expedition. Stephen Harriman Long	94
Observations on the Mineralogy and Geology of a Part of the United States west of the Mississippi. Augustus Edward Jessup	183
Calculations of Observations made ... on a tour from the Council Bluffs on the Missouri River, westward along the river Platte to its head waters in the Rocky Mountains,—thence southwardly to the head waters of the Arkansa and Canadian rivers, and down said rivers to Belle Point, performed in 1820. [From Philadelphia edition, 1823]. Stephen Harriman Long, and William Henry Swift	256
Vocabularies of Indian Languages [from Philadelphia edition, 1823]. Thomas Say	289