Chapter I: Front Matter

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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

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)