| Author | Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.
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| Title | Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, 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 to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver.
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| Published | Philadelphia, Printed by J. Crukshank, 1792.
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| Description | xvi, vii, [9]-282 p. 17 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.
Howes, 215.
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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.
Northwestern States -- Description and travel.
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| Related Titles | Travels through the interior parts of North America.
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 42 J C331T 1792
mq49114: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 35545] |
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