| Author | Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.
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| Title | Three years' travels throughout [!] the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the lakes, islands and rivers, cateracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north west regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and west of the River Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are most proper for forming [!] settlements. By Jonathan Carver, captain of the Provincial troops in America.
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| Published | Walpole, N.H., Published by Isaiah Thomas & Co., 1813.
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| Description | xvi, [17]-280 p. 18 cm.
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| General Note | First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
For discussion as to authorship, etc. cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne (American Historical Review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data," by J.T. Lee.
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| Subjects | Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
Indians of North America -- Northwestern States.
Minnesota -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
New Hampshire -- Imprints -- Walpole -- 1813.
Northwestern States -- Description and travel.
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| LC Card Number | 01-17052 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 42 J C331 T3
mq49116: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 35547] |
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