A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor- Two Volumes

Featherstonhaugh, George W.

ISBN 10: 0873510577 / ISBN 13: 9780873510578

Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1970

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Two volume set in a Very Good+ slipcase with some rubbing to slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 39512

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor- Two Volumes
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873510577
• ISBN 13: 9780873510578
• Binding: Hard Covers
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jackets
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Well written and entertaining, A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, describes the extensive travels of George William Featherstonhaugh in Wisconsin, Minnesota and various southern states in 1835 and 1837.

 

Featherstonhaugh, an Englishman by birth, was a geologist by profession and well qualified to comment on the American scene. By the time of his travels in the 1830s, he had lived in the United States for nearly thirty years. He was also a linguist with an attentive ear for speech. In performing his duties as a geologist for the United States, he visited remote sections of the frontier that few other trained observers had yet an opportunity to see.

 

In these two volumes Featherstonhaugh chronicles two separate expeditions?a geological expedition in 1835 of the area from Lake Michigan west to the Coteau des Prairies at the headwaters of the Minnesota River, and a tour in 1837 of the mineral lands of Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, and the western Carolinas.