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Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839 / and De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Chapter 1: Early Western Travels 1748-1846
By Thomas Jefferson Farnham
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The volume collects two mid-19th-century travel accounts and mission reports from the Pacific Northwest, combining a firsthand riverine journey with observations on geography, river mouths, rapids and falls, timber, prairies, native camps, and Hudson's Bay Company posts; it records settler cabins, mills, neighborhood life, and the methods and improvements of Protestant missions. Accompanying missionary narratives recount crossings of the Rockies, establishment of Catholic missions among inland tribes, descriptions of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, tribal chiefs, and mission buildings, and include maps and illustrations. Together the texts mix practical travel detail, ethnographic description, and commentary on economic potential and missionary enterprise in the Oregon region.

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Title: Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839

Author: Thomas Jefferson Farnham

Pierre-Jean de Smet

Editor: Reuben Gold Thwaites

Release date: March 28, 2022 [eBook #67730]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906

Credits: 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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Early Western Travels
1748-1846

Volume XXIX

The Lodge Pole (Indian name); Great Chief of the Flat-heads. Victor (in baptism)

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,” “Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” “Hennepin’s
New Discovery,” etc.

Volume XXIX

Part II of Farnham’s Travels in the Great Western Prairies,
etc., October 21-December 4, 1839; and De Smet’s
Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky
Mountains, 1845-1846

Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906

Copyright 1906, by
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO