Transcriber’s Note: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Footnotes were moved to the end of each chapter. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These were not changed. Misspelled words, dialect, obsolete spellings and non-standard diacriticals in French were not corrected. Manuscript page numbers are displayed within brackets, e.g. {36}. Obvious printing errors, such as duplicate words, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed. Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume VI 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 Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Wisconsin Historical Collections,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare,” “Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc. Volume VI Brackenridge’s Journal up the Missouri, 1811 Franchère’s Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814 [Illustration] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1904 COPYRIGHT 1904, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI PREFACE. _The Editor_ 9 I JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE RIVER MISSOURI; performed in eighteen hundred and eleven. _H. M. Brackenridge_ Copyright Notice 22 Author’s Preface 23 Author’s Table of Contents 25 Text 27 Appendix (Parts I, II, and IV omitted) Chapter III. Extract from “Views of Louisiana” 153 A table of distances 164 II