  | Preface to Volumes XIV-XVII. The Editor | 9 | | Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long, of the U. S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Party. [Part I, being chapters i-x of Volume I of the London edition, 1823.] Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition | | Dedication | 33 | | Preliminary Notice [from Philadelphia edition, 1823] | 35 | | Text: | | CHAPTER I—Departure from Pittsburgh. North-western slope of Alleghany Mountains. Rapids of the Ohio | 39 | | CHAPTER II—The Ohio below the Rapids at Louisville. Ascent of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to St. Louis | 77 | | CHAPTER III—Tumuli and Indian graves about St. Louis, and on the Merameg. Mouth of the Missouri. Charboniere. Journey by land from St. Charles to Loutre Island | 108 | | CHAPTER IV—Settlement of Cote Sans Dessein. Mouths of the Osage. Manito Rocks. Village of Franklin | 136 | | CHAPTER V—Death of Dr. Baldwin. Charaton River, and Settlement. Pedestrian Journey from Franklin to Fort Osage | 153 | | CHAPTER VI—Mouth of the Konzas. Arrival at Wolf River. Journey by land from Fort Osage to the Village of the Konzas | 171 | | CHAPTER VII—Further Account of the Konza Nation. Robbery of Mr. Say's Detachment by a War-party of Pawnees. Arrival at the Platte | 199 | | CHAPTER VIII—Winter Cantonment near Council Bluff. Councils with the Otoes, Missouries, Ioways, Pawnees, &c. | 221 | | CHAPTER IX—Animals. Sioux and Omawhaw Indians. Winter Residence at Engineer Cantonment | 250 | | CHAPTER X—Account of the Omawhaws. Their Manners, and Customs, and Religious Rites. Historical Notices of Black Bird, Late Principal Chief | 288 |
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