Message from the President of the United States Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita ...

by Captains Lewis and Clark ... by Thomas Jefferson

$27,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1806. First Edition. Jefferson’s earliest report on the Lewis and Clark and Sibley–Dunbar expeditions. The first official publication to provide any detailed account of Lewis and Clark, and the first work to give any satisfactory account of the Southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. It is also the first account of Texas in book form. Original

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