Project Gutenberg 2025-06-01 Public domain in the USA. 329 Thwaites, Reuben Gold 1853 1913 Thwaites, R. G. (Reuben Gold) Brackenridge, H. M. (Henry Marie) 1786 1871 Brackenridge, Henry Marie Breckenridge, Henry M. (Henry Marie) Breckinridge, Henry M. (Henry Marie) Franchère, Gabriel 1786 1863 Franchere, Gabriel Huntington, J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) 1815 1862 Huntington, Jedediah Vincent Vincent, John Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814 $aCleveland :$bThe Arthur H. Clark Company, $c1904. Early western travels 1748-1846, volume 6 Carol Brown, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's… by H. M. Brackenridge and Gabriel Franchère is a collection of historical travel narratives written in the early 20th century. It reprints firsthand accounts of early 19th-century exploration and the fur trade, from a voyage up the Missouri with Manuel Lisa to the Astorian venture on the Northwest Coast, highlighting river navigation, frontier settlements, encounters with Indigenous nations, and the emerging American West. The opening of the volume frames the texts with an editor’s preface that sketches both writers’ careers and the significance of their narratives, then begins with Brackenridge’s own preface and journal. He explains the Missouri Fur Company’s aims and setbacks, Manuel Lisa’s leadership, and his plan to overtake Wilson Hunt’s party for safer passage through Sioux country. The narrative then launches from St. Charles, detailing difficult river work, storms, islands and tributaries, hunters’ camps, wildlife encounters, and scattered settlements, culminating in a stop at Fort Osage with observations of the Osage people and the factory before pushing onward, still intent on catching Hunt upriver. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20110930214403thwaites 1904 US Reading ease score: 64.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Astoria (Or.) Fur trade -- Oregon Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel Voyages to the Pacific coast Oregon Territory -- History Indians of North America -- Missouri River Valley Missouri River Valley -- Discovery and exploration F590.3 F850.5 Text Category: Biographies Category: Travel Writing Category: History - American 991898 2025-07-30T07:08:33.103578 text/html 958024 2025-06-01T10:59:50 text/html 1215310 2025-07-30T07:08:49.361498 application/epub+zip 1212781 2025-07-30T07:08:36.207587 application/epub+zip 574067 2025-07-30T07:08:34.513546 application/epub+zip 1481997 2025-07-30T07:08:58.436954 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1388597 2025-07-30T07:08:47.861437 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 843117 2025-07-30T07:08:31.006544 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 822738 2025-06-01T10:59:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18295 2025-07-30T07:08:58.652910 application/rdf+xml 14828 2025-07-30T07:08:34.876532 image/jpeg 2557 2025-07-30T07:08:34.698561 image/jpeg 1393922 2025-07-30T07:08:33.210536 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia