Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean

Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean. : Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. [1] page at end publisher's advertisement. Printed nearly verbatim from the original ''History of the expedition'' (written by N. Biddle and prepared for the press by P. Allen) with omission of the preface, the appendix, and Jefferson's ''Life of Capt. Lewis''. Thomas Rees, the English editor, supplies a new preface, which also includes President Jefferson's Message of Feb. 19, 1806, and an extract of the Fort Mandan letter of April ''17th'' [i.e. 7th] 1806, from Capt. Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to the Jefferson pamphlet of 1806, to the English ed. (1809) of the Apocrypha, and to Gass' Journal. Cf. Coues. History of the expedition.