Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 3 and appendix

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXIV

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The author records a winter residence at Fort Clarke and subsequent journeys through the Upper Missouri and eastern waterways, combining day-to-day camp life, weather and hunting hardships with close descriptions of Mandan, Sioux and Manitari ceremonies, dances, social visits, and village architecture. Narratives recount peace negotiations, epidemics reaching trading posts, and travel from Fort Clarke to Leavenworth, down the Ohio into Lake Erie and Niagara, then eastward. An appendix assembles tribal vocabularies and sign language, meteorological and natural-history lists, treaties and Indian traditions, and practical observations from forts and winter villages.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXIV

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Plan of Minitaree medicine feast	25
Club, with carved head	25
Plan of Mandan hut	37
Mandan, in bull-dance costume	37
Heads of sledge dogs	37
Double rainbow	59
Little Soldier (Tukan Haton), a Sioux chief	59
Plan of Niagara Falls	169
Harpoon for dolphins	169

Part III, and Appendix, of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America

The Text, a reprint of chapters xxviii-xxxiii of the London edition, 1843; the Appendix, a combination of the Appendices of the London and German (Coblentz, 1839) editions.

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1832, 1833, AND 1834

[PART III]