[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Schoolcraft Goes up the Missouri -1821

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw from
Potosi, or Mine a Burton, in Missouri Territory, in a South-West
Direction, toward the Rocky Mountains; performed in the years 1818 and
1819”

By Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co. in 1821.

DISCUSSION: An early travelogue by an important early traveler and writer
about Native Americans. Schoolcraft had accompanied the Cass expedition
through the upper Mississippi and Lake Superior regions, and became
intensely interested in Indians and their lives. He eventually married a
Chippewa woman, became Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Michigan, and
authored an important 6-volume set on American Indians. This copy lacks
the folding map.

DESCRIPTION: Disbound. 5.5"x9", 102 pages; partially unopened; lacks map.

CONDITION NOTES: Disbound.  Shadow on the title page, last signature
detached, partially unopened.  LACKS MAP.

PRICE: $250 -

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