The Northern Expeditions of Stephen H. Long: The Journals of 1817 and 1823 and Related Documents (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)

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Describes two expeditions: one in 1817 up the Mississippi River to the Falls of St. Anthony; and a second in 1823 westward from Philadelphia to the Red River of the North down the Red and east along the old Canadian canoe route the Great Lakes and portions of the Erie Canal. Longs journals are especially valuable for their firsthand observations of the Midwest and its people in the early 1800s with references to many Indian peoples including the Assiniboine Dakota Iroquois Menominee Ojibway Osage Ottawa Potawatomi Sauk Winnebago and Yanktonai.