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AMERICAN JOURNEYS COLLECTION
An Account of an Expedition
from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains,
Performed in the Years
1819, 1820
Volume 2
by Edwin James
DOCUMENT No. AJ-144b
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DIGITAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
I I www.americanjourneys.org I www.wisconsinhistory.org I I
© Wisconsin Historical Society 2003
Object Description
| Document Number | AJ-144b |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/ |
| Document Title | An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 |
| Author | James, Edwin, 1797-1861 |
| Document Source | James, Edwin. An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition. In Three Volumes. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823). Volume 2. |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/summary/ |
| Genre | government report; journal; travel narrative; Indian account; legal document; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Great Plains & Rocky Mountains; Southwest & California; Great Lakes & Mississippi Valley; |
| State / Province | Nebraska; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Colorado; New Mexico; Texas; Oklahoma; |
| Event Date | 1819-1820 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Long Expedition, 1819-1820 |
| Ethnicity | American; Indian; |
| Indian Tribe | Minetares; Paducah; Omaha; Iowa; Pawnee; Oto; Kansa; Missouri; Ponca; Kaskaia; |
| Key Persons & Places | Big Elk, Ong-pa-ton-ga; Hard Heart, Wangewaha; Black Bird, Wash-ing-guh-sah-ba; John Dougherty; Real War Eagle, He-roch-che; He Who Eats Raw, Wa-sac-a-ru-ja; Arkansas River; Elkhorn River; Grand River; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Platte Mountains; Rocky Mountains; Terrarecacawa |
| Encounters | contact / meeting; |
| Social Relations | white attitudes; communication; women’s roles; Indian-white relations; crime; Indian attitudes; |
| Life Stages | death; |
| Daily Life | humor; clothing; tools & implements; jewelry & adornment; health & illness; housing & furnishings; |
| Art | dance; visual arts; story telling; |
| Religion & Beliefs | Indian practices; legends; |
| Politics | military; intertribal relations; diplomacy & treaties; colonization; emigration & migration; governance & laws; warfare & battles; |
| Economics | domestic animals; hunting; |
| Science & Technology | geography; geology; transportation; construction; botany; |
| Topography | prairies; mineral deposits; mountains; soil; |
| Plants | grasses; trees; flowers; shrubs; |
| Animals | mammals; insects; reptiles & amphibians; birds; |
| Digital Format | xml |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-144b |
| Copyright & Access | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
| Type | Text |
Description
| Document Number | AJ-144b |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/ |
| Document Title | An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 |
| Author | James, Edwin, 1797-1861 |
| Document Page | document cover page |
| Document Source | James, Edwin. An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820. By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the Command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Party, by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition. In Three Volumes. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823). Volume 2. |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-144b/summary/ |
| Genre | government report; journal; travel narrative; |
| Page Type | document cover page; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Great Plains & Rocky Mountains; Southwest & California; Great Lakes & Mississippi Valley; |
| Event Date | 1819-1820 |
| Expedition / Settlement | Long Expedition, 1819-1820 |
| Digital Format | jpeg |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-144b-0000 |
| Copyright & Access | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
| Full Text |
AMERICAN JOURNEYS COLLECTION An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 Volume 2 by Edwin James DOCUMENT No. AJ-144b WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY DIGITAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES I I www.americanjourneys.org I www.wisconsinhistory.org I I © Wisconsin Historical Society 2003 |