Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean: performed by order of the government of the United

Title: Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean: performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01999100CollectionID: CTRG96-B2771PublicationDate: 18140101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Printed nearly verbatim from the original "History of the expedition" (written by N. Biddle and prepared for the press by P. Allen) with omission of the preface, and appendix, and Jefferson's "Life of Capt. Lewis." Thomas Rees, the English editor, supplies a new preface, which also includes President Jefferson's Message of Feb. 19, 1806, and an extract of the Fort Mandan letter April "17th" [i.e. 7th] 1805, from Capt. Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to the Jefferson pamphlet of 1806, to the English ed. (1809) of the Apocrypha and to Gass' Journal. Cf. Coues, History of the expedition, 1893.Collation: xxiv, 663 p., [4] leaves of plates: 4 maps; 28 cm