Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America

Download or read book Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America written by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report of the first United States expedition to the Southwest, here in the handsome first British edition. One of the most important American travel books, including accounts of Pike's explorations on the Mississippi, Red, and Arkansas rivers and his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. He also visited northern Texas, and Streeter considers his account excellent. The maps present in this edition are the "Map of the Interior Part of Louisiana" and a reduced version of the map of the Mississippi. The Pike expedition stands with the narratives of Lewis and Clark, and Long, as the most important of the early books on western exploration.