COLLECTION NAME:
Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
Record
APA Citation Style:
Finiels, N. D., Lewis, M., Clark, W., Harrison, W. H., Mackay, J. & Evans, J. (1798) Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota: used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in theirexpedition up Missouri River. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov…
MLA Citation Style:
Finiels, Nicolas De, et al. Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota: used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in theirexpedition up Missouri River. [1798] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002621122/>.
Chicago Citation Style:
Finiels, Nicolas De, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, William Henry Harrison, James Mackay, and John Evans. Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota: used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in theirexpedition up Missouri River. [1798] Map. https://www.loc.gov…
Contributors:
Finiels, Nicolas de.
Created Published:
[1798]
Original Format:
map
Subjects:
united states
Online Format:
image
Title:
[Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota : used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their 1804 expedition up Missouri River].
Description:
Date from accompanying text. Relief shown by symbols for "Black Mountains" or Black Hills. Some place names in both English and French. Based on surveys up to the Mandan-Hidatsa villages by James Mackay and John Evans. Longitudinal errors, at least in part, account for map not being drawn to scale. Prime meridian: Paris [?]. Pen-and-ink. Some pen-and-ink annotations made after 1798. Map backed with Japanese tissue paper. Accompanied by photocopy of text on mapping of de Finiels: Missouri Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 4, July 1987, p. 387-402. On verso written in pen-and-ink by William Henry Harrison but unsigned: For Captn. William Clark or Captn. Meriwether Lewis on their voyage up the Mississippi. Also on verso written in pen-and-ink: Mr. Peter Tabeau at the Ricraries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Stains, darkening, tears, creases, and small pieces missing.
Attribution:
Provided by the Library of Congress
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