Thwaites, Reuben Gold 1853-1913 creator Brackenridge, H. M. (Henry Marie) 1786-1871 Franchère, Gabriel 1786-1863 Huntington, J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) 1815-1862 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats 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.) Release date is 2025-06-01 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.) Originally published: Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904 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 Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76209 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76209 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134749.0 76209