Views of Louisiana; Containing Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Notices of that Vast and Important Portion of America

by H. M Brackenridge

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First edition

Baltimore, MD: Printed by Schaeffer & Maund, 1817. Second edition first published Pittsburgh, 1814 . 12mo. 323 pp. Prints an 1816 letter from the author concerning New Orleans flooding that did not appear in the first edition, but without Brackenridge's journal of an 1811 trip up the Missouri River that did. Howes B- 688. Sabin 7177. Clark Old South II 136: Discusses discovery, settlement, climate, soil, rivers, resources, agriculture, towns, and Indians

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