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Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) RiversSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers

Name: Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers
Author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Dakota Indians; Indians of North America -- Government relations; Minnesota -- Description and travel; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration; Natural history -- Minnesota; Ojibwa Indians; Ojibwa language; Saint Croix River (Wis. and Minn.); United States -- Discovery and exploration

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[Illustration:

    _SKETCH OF THE SOURCES_
    OF THE
    MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

    _Drawn from Lieuᵗ. Allen’s observations
    in 1832, to illustrate_

    SCHOOLCRAFT’S INLAND JOURNEY
    TO ITASCA LAKE.

    De Count & Hammond Sᶜ.]


                               NARRATIVE
                                 OF AN
                              EXPEDITION
                     THROUGH THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI
                            TO ITASCA LAKE,
                   THE ACTUAL SOURCE OF THIS RIVER;
                               EMBRACING
               AN EXPLORATORY TRIP THROUGH THE ST. CROIX
                   AND BURNTWOOD (OR BROULE) RIVERS;
                               IN 1832.

                        UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
                         HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT.

                               NEW-YORK:
                    PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,
                         NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET.
                                 1834.

       Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833,
                       By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT,
          In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Michigan.

    GEO. L. WHITNEY, Printer, Detroit.




                          TO GEN. HUGH BRADY,
                      OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

SIR:

In prefixing your name to this volume, I am reminded that, while
indulging the gratification of personal friendship, I am addressing
a soldier, who early entered the field of western warfare under the
veteran Wayne; and who, for a period of upwards of forty years, during
the changing circumstances of war and of peace, has ever been found
faithfully, bravely, and honorably serving his country.

  With sentiments of respect,
  HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT.




                               PREFACE.


The circumstances under which the present expedition was undertaken,
are indicated in the following extracts from the letters of instruction.

                                            “_Detroit, Aug. 9, 1830._

Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers

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