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Reuben Gold Thwaites has the following 2 genealogy books:
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EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748-1846. Volume V: Bradburys Travels in the Interior of America, 1809-1811. Edited, with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc.
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| If stories of westward exploration stir up your imagination, you will enjoy these accounts of the travels of naturalist John Bradbury and others. Bradbury traveled from St. Louis to the Arikara Indian villages, some eighteen hundred miles above the mouth of the Missouri. From there he accompanied Ramsay Crooks to the fur-trading station among the Mandan, two hundred miles farther up river. His observations and experiences among the Native American tribes (both friendly and otherwise) are colorful and informative, as are his wondrous descriptions of rivers and natural features, settlements, fortifications, Canadian boatmen, war parties, narrow escapes from wild animals, buffalo herds and the buffalo hunt, fossil bones, a medicine man, a tremendous thunder storm, and much more, including an amazing recounting of the massive New Madrid earthquake. Although Lewis and Clark had returned from their expedition in 1806, their journals were yet to be published when Bradbury set out from St. Louis. At that time, any reports or illustrations of the people, wildlife and territory of the western United States were eagerly consumed by the public and the scientific community alike. Due to the technological limitations of the day, Bradburys journals would not be published until 1817. Appendices include: a glossary of common words in the Osage language; an oration delivered by Big Elk (chief of the Maha nation) over the grave of Black Buffalo (chief of the Tetons); the narrative of the expedition of Mr. Hunt; Mr. Crooks narrative of Mr. Hunts expedition from the Arikaras to the Pacific; a description of the Missouri Territory; remarks on emigration to the states of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and the Illinois and Western Territories; and a catalogue of some of the more rare or valuable plants discovered in the neighborhood of St. Louis and on the Missouri. An important component of the collective history of western exploration. - General Reference - General Reference - |
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FATHER MARQUETTE
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| In May of 1673, Father Marquette set out in company with Louis Joliet, to explore the Mississippi River. By mid-June, in two frail canoes of birchbark, and with five French servants, the explorers entered the great river at the mouth of the Wisconsin, and descended, with many interesting adventures, as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas River. Learning from the Indians the course and characteristics of the waterway from that point to the Gulf of Mexico, they returned northward by way of the Illinois and Chicago Rivers and the west shore of Lake Michigan, reaching the Jesuit mission at the De Pere rapids, Wisconsin, in September. Overcome by a malady contracted through exposure and hardship upon the long voyage, Marquette could not leave De Pere until October of 1674. He returned by boat to Illinois, where he desired to found a new mission. After a cold, dreary journey up the west coast of Lake Michigan, he was obliged because of ill health to pass the winter with two servants in a wretched cabin upon the Chicago River. In early spring he was able to proceed to some Indian villages upon the Illinois River, but soon was compelled by his ailment to return, this time intending to reach the old mission of St. Ignace, on the Mackinac Straits. Death overtook him while still 250 miles from his destination. Such, in outline, is the brief, simple tragedy of one of the most interesting characters in American history. Father Marquette was great as an explorer, as a "tamer of savages", and as a preacher; and he has left to us in the journals of his voyages of 1673 and 1674-75, two keenly interesting human documents. Whenever practicable, the present writer has drawn freely upon the annual Relations of the Jesuits, and upon Marquettes own journals. Two of Marquettes original maps are reproduced in this book. - United States - General Reference - |
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