OF

THE EXPEDITION

OF

CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK

1804-5-6

REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1814

WITH INTRODUCTION AND INDEX

BY

JAMES K. HOSMER, LL.D.,

AUTHOR OF A SHORT HISTORY of the Mississippi Valley,"
THE STORY OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE," ETC.;
President oF THE AMERICAN
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

In Two Volumes, with Portraits and Maps
VOLUME I.

FOURTH EDITION

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

Copyright

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1902

Fourth Edition published July 5, 1917
Fifth Edition published October, 1924

Composition by The Dial Press, Chicago
Presswork by W. B. Conkey Company
Printed in United States of America

Meriwether Lewis

OF

THE EXPEDITION

UNDER THE COMMAND OF

CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK,

TO

THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI,

THENCE

ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

AND DOWN THE

RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN

PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804-5-6.

By order of the

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

PREPARED FOR THE PRESS

BY PAUL ALLEN, ESQUIRE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND
ABM: H. INSKEEP, NEWYORK.

J. Maxwell, Printer.

1814

Facsimile tille-page 1814 edition.

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1924

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DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-second day of January, in the thirty-eighth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1814, Bradford & Inskeep, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the Years 1804-5-6, by order of the Government of the United States. Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esquire."

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DAVID CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.

original copyright notice.