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Views of Lousiana
together with a
Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River
in 1811
By
Henry Marie Brackenridge
Henry Marie Brackenridge ascended the Missouri River in 1811 in the
company of a party of the Missouri Fur Company, led by Manuel Lisa. That
same year, a party of the Pacific Fur Company bound for Astoria and led by
Wilson Price Hunt was also ascending the river. Brackenridge's Journal is
an important historical source for both these expeditions.
The Journal was published in a book called Views of Lousiana,
together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811,
published in 1814 in Pittsburg, by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum. This
electronic transcription cover only Brackenridge's Journal; the complete
book includes ten additional chapters pertaining to the history,
geography, and economy of the settled part of the Lousiana territory.
This on-line edition includes footnotes by James R. Kyle.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
A Short
History of Man and the Missouri River