Schoolcraft, Henry R.:

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A VIEW OF THE LEAD MINES OF MISSOURI; INCLUDING SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, SOIL, CLIMATE, POPULATION, AND PRODUCTIONS OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAW, AND OTHER ... The first published work of Schoolcraft, notable for his many later works relating to American Indians. His initial training was in geology. In 1817-18 he undertook an expedition to southern Missouri and northern Arkansas to examine the lead mines there, which had been described in print by Moses Austin twenty years earlier. His book is the first detailed description of the Ozark uplands by a trained scientist. At the time of his visit, the area was still effectively beyond the frontier, and he provides a good picture of life there. The frontispiece shows the mining town of Potosi.

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