Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895)

              1 820 papers of james duane doty 1 63 papers of james duane doty.1 official journal 1820 expedition with cass and schoolcraft wednesday may 24 1820 this expedition is fitted out at the suggestion of gov cass by the secretary at war mr calhoun its objects are understood to be the attainment of certain information of the moral & physical situation of the north ern indians their divisions names important men of what numbers the tribes are composed the country and its extent which they inhabit and their history manners 1 it may be necessary to explain to non wisconsin readers that mr . doty was the second wisconsin territorial governor born at salem jst y november 5 1799 he was in his twenty-first year when at that time secretary of the territorial legislature of michigan he was se lected by gov lewis cass to be official secretary of the united states exploridg expedition whose record is here given of the party was henry r schoolcraft who published a detailed and very readable narrative of the expedition phila lippincott grambo & co 1855 covering 596 large octavo pages in his introduction mr schoolcraft recites the documentary history of the expedition the official journal kept by doty has not heretofore been published it admirably supple ments schoolcraft's popular work which has long been an authority among western historians in wis hist colls vii pp 195-206 is a re port on the topography resources and indian trade of northern wis consin made by doty to cass under date of september 27 1820 which shows him to have been a close observer this report has been of much practical value to writers on wisconsin history we are indebted to governor doty's son charles doty of alton 111 for the originals of all the doty papers presented in this volume — ed