Notes of a part of the exp[editio]n of discovery commanded by S. H. Long, Maj. U.S. Eng.., &c. &c., 1820
Abstract
Manuscript diary, Mar. 22, 1820-Jan. 9, 1823, while a member of Major S.H. Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mts., and while writing the official narrative; journal notes and narrative, 1824-1827, for service as army surgeon in Minnesota and Iowa; miscellaneous geological, botanical and other scientific notes, and notes on the Indigenous and other people encountered. Also includes hand-drawn maps and sketches.
Subjects
Botanists--United States; Geologists--United States; Discoveries in geography--American; Indians of North America--West (U.S.); Manuscripts, American; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Pikes Peak (Colo.) Discovery and exploration; United States Discovery and exploration; James, Edwin, 1797-1861; Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864; United States. Army
Format
books
Genre
Diaries; Overland journals; Manuscripts
Date
1820-1827
Physical Description
1 online resource (3 volumes in 1)
Note
Shelfmark: MS X974.3 J23 (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published in part as: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820 / By order of the Hon, J. C. Calhoun under the command of Maj. S. H. Long. Comp. from the notes of Maj. Long, Mr. T. Say, and othe r gentlemen of the party / by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the . London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823.