Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43751-h.htm or 43751-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43751/43751-h/43751-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43751/43751-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/earlywesterntrav14thwa Transcriber's note: This ebook reproduces the 1905 Arthur H. Clark Company Edition, which is itself based on an 1823 London edition of Part I of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition. The 1905 edition incorporated portions from several differing published editions of the account, plus a map which does not appear to have been directly related to James's account. The original pagination of the 1823 London edition was included in the 1905 edition, and is shown in this ebook by numbers enclosed in brackets, e.g. {135}. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capitals have been converted to uppercase. A carat character is used to denote superscription. The character(s) enclosed in curly brackets following the carat is/are superscripted (examples: Pub^{d}, C^{o.}). Further details of this transcription are located at the end of this e-book. EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846 VOLUME XIV 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," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc. Volume XIV Part I of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820 Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1905 Copyright 1905, by The Arthur H. Clark Company All Rights Reserved The Lakeside Press R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV PREFACE TO VOLUMES XIV-XVII. _The Editor_ 9 ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTSBURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long, of the U. S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Party. [Part I, being chapters i-x of Volume I of the London edition, 1823.] _Edwin James_, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition Dedication 33 Preliminary Notice [from Philadelphia edition, 1823] 35