James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4

Early Western Travels 1748-1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII

ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME XVII

Part IV of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820

{124} CHAPTER I Journey from Belle Point to Cape Girardeau—Cherokee Indians—Osage War—Regulator's Settlements of White River.

{148} CHAPTER II {X} Hot Springs of the Washita—Granite of the Cove—Saline River

CHAPTER III {XI} Red River—Exploring Expedition of 1806—Return to the Arkansa—Earthquakes

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY TRAVERSED BY THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION

OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF A PART OF THE UNITED STATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

[PART II] Containing the Calculations of Observations made by Major Long and Lieutenant Swift, on a tour from the Council Bluffs on the Missouri river, westward along the river Platte to its head waters in the Rocky Mountains,—thence southwardly to the head waters of the Arkansa and Canadian rivers,—and down said rivers to Belle Point, performed in 1820, under the command of Major S. H. Long, of the United States' Topographical Engineers.