Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas

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Author

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Produced by Julia Miller, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F396: United States local history: Old Southwest. Lower Mississippi Valley

Subject

Ozark Mountains

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eBook-No.

36675

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36675

Release Date

July 9, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SCENES — AND — ADVENTURES — IN THE
2. 2.OZARK MOUNTAINS OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS, — WHICH WERE FIRST TRAVERSED BY DE SOTO, IN 1541.
3. 3.BY HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT. — PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO. 1853. — Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the District of Columbia. — Dedication. — To the Memory — OF — DE WITT CLINTON, — LATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, &C. &C. &C, AN EARLY FRIEND, DURING THE YEARS DEVOTED TO THESE EXCURSIONS INTO THE GREAT AREA OF THE WEST;— A MAN WHO WAS EMINENT IN VARIOUS WALKS OF LIFE;— WHO, BY HIS EXALTED FORECAST, WISE COUNSELS, AND STEADY POLICY, CONTRIBUTED TO THE HIGHEST BENEFITS AND RENOWN OF HIS NATIVE STATE;— THESE RECORDS OF INCIDENTS OF EXPLORATORY TRAVEL, ARE DEDICATED WITH THE SINCEREST SENTIMENTS OF RESPECT AND REGARD FOR HIS CHARACTER AND NAME, WHICH I EVER ENTERTAINED FOR HIM WHILE LIVING, AND CONTINUE TO CHERISH NOW THAT HE IS DEAD.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
8. 8.CHAPTER I.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — FOOTNOTE:
10. 10.CHAPTER III.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — FOOTNOTE:
14. 14.CHAPTER VII.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — FOOTNOTE:
17. 17.CHAPTER X.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — FOOTNOTE:
19. 19.CHAPTER XII.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — FOOTNOTE:
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV.
23. 23.PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST.
24. 24.APPENDIX. — OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, ANTIQUITIES, AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN COUNTRY.
25. 25.I. LEAD-MINES OF MISSOURI. — A MEMOIR ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF MISSOURI, DRAWN UP IN 1819.
26. 26.PREFACE.
27. 27.A VIEW OF THE LEAD-MINES OF MISSOURI. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.MINERALOGY. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.CATALOGUE OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, (continued.)
30. 30.MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE WEST. — FOOTNOTE:
31. 31.GEOGRAPHY.
32. 32.ANTIQUITIES AND INDIAN HISTORY. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. — FOOTNOTES: — THE END.

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