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
by Jonathan Carver
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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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First published in London, 1778 under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
Also attributed tentatively to John Coakley Lettsom, known to be involved with the work at least in the category of editor. Cf. Bourne, E.G. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", Amer. hist. review, v. 11, no. 2 (Jan. 1906), p. 287-302.
The Houghton Library notes two settings of signatures E-K, P-Q, and S-W, distinguishable by the size of the signature marks.
"A short vocabulary of the Chipéway [Ojibwa] language": p. 241-249.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie [Dakota] language": p. 249-253.
Signatures: a⁶ A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2B⁶
Sabin 11185.
Evans 31920.
ESTC W28309
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:3855.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.
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