Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America
for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements
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Author
Contributions
- Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815 - Contributor
Publication
1797 - Printed by John Russell, for David West, no. 56, Cornhill, Boston., [Boston], Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25334236M
- OCLC Control Number4741193
- OCLC Control Number1019309793
- OCLC Control Numberthreeyearstravel05carv
- Library of Congress Control Number01017054
Classifications
- LCCF597 .C382
Alternate Titles
- Carver's travels.
Description
Jonathan Carver served as a member of Rogers’ Rangers and as a Captain in a Massachusetts regiment during the French and Indian War, and also studied surveying and mapping. In the 1760s he wanted to explore the new territory acquired by the British in that war, finally finding a sponsor in Robert Rogers, who had recently been appointed commander at Fort Michilimackinac. The Carver expedition’s objective would be to find a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. Carver departed Fort Michilimackinac in 1766 for Green Bay, where he resupplied and headed west. The expedition explored the upper Mississippi and parts of Minnesota and Iowa before returning to Fort Michilimackinac in August 1767, where Carver found that his sponsor, Major Rogers, had been arrested for treason. Part of this book was probably written at Fort Michilimackinac that winter. See the Wikipedia entry on Jonathan Carver for more about his later personal story, which is not in Carver’s book, and later claims by historians that parts of this book were plagiarized.
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