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Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814

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By H. M. Brackenridge
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This volume gathers two early travel narratives that chronicle western river and Pacific-coast voyages documenting early western and coastal exploration. One account records a keel-boat journey up the Missouri, combining landscape and natural-history observation with scenes of frontier commerce, encounters with Indigenous peoples, and the practical hardships of long river travel. The other narrative follows a transoceanic and coastal voyage leading to an early settlement on the Northwest coast, describing navigation, geography, survival challenges, and relations with local populations. Editorial introductions, appendices, illustrations, and distance tables supply documentary context and annotations.

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Title: Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814

Editor: Reuben Gold Thwaites

Author: H. M. Brackenridge

Gabriel Franchère

Translator: J. V. Huntington

Release date: June 1, 2025 [eBook #76209]

Language: English

Original publication: Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904

Credits: Carol Brown, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes were moved to the end of each chapter. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These were not changed. Misspelled words, dialect, obsolete spellings and non-standard diacriticals in French were not corrected.

Manuscript page numbers are displayed withiin brackets, e.g. {36}. Obvious printing errors, such as duplicate words, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed.