Message from the President of the United States, communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar : with a statistical account of the countries adjacent.
| Author/creator | United States |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | City of Washington : A. & G. Way, printers, 1806. |
| Description | 171 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : 1 map ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. |
| Other author/creator | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. |
| Other author/creator | Sibley, John, 1757-1837. |
| Other author/creator | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810. |
| Contents | Message ... [Feb. 19, 1806]--Extract of a letter from Captain Meriwether Lewis to the President ... dated Fort Mandan, April 17th, 1805.--A statistical view of the Indian nations inhabiting the territory of Louisiana ... [by Meriwether Lewis]--Historical sketches of the several Indian tribes in Louisiana ... [by John Sibley]--[Account of Red River and the country adjacent, by John Sibley]--Observations made in a voyage commencing at St. Catharine's landing on the east bank of the Mississippi, proceeding downwards to the mouth of Red River, and from thence ascending that river, the Black River, and the Washita River, as high as the hot springs in the proximity of the last mentioned river, extracted from the journals of William Dunbar, Esq. and Doctor Hunter.--Meteorological observations made by Mr. Dunbar and Dr. Hunter, in their voyage up the Red and Washita rivers, in the year 1804. |
| Local note | Joyner- Library's copy imperfect: Lacking t.p. and all before p. [3]. Lacking map. One plate (table) partially missing. Autographed on p. [3]: "Robt. Kennedy." Embossed on p. [9].: "From the library of L.E. Babits." |
| General note | "February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table." |
| General note | Tables on two folded leaves of plates. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 11633 |
| References | Wagner-Camp (4th ed.) 5:1 |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner- Gift of: Lawrence Babits, 2010 |
| LCCN | rc 01001197 |