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1Title:  History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clarke: to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean: performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806, by order of the government of the United States    
 Creator:  Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 
 Clark, William, 1770-1838
 Allen, Paul, 1775-1826
 MacVickar, Archibald
 Publication:  Harper & brothers, New York,1868. 
 Notes:  The appendix contains (1) Farther enumeration and description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and plants noticed duing the expedition. (2) Enumeration of Indian nations, and their places of general residence. (3) A summary statement of the rivers, creeks, and most remarkable places, their distances from each other and from the Mississippi, up the Missouri, across the Rocky Mountains, and down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, as determined by Captains Lewis and Clarke. 
 Call #:  F42.5 L61 1868 Vault 
 Extent:  2 v. front. (fold. map) 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Lewis and Clark Expedition | United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Missouri River | Columbia River
 
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2Title:  Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain ; performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States    
 Creator:  Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 
 Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864
 Publication:  Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,1811. 
 Notes:  "This is the standard English edition, prepared under the ... editorship of Dr. Thomas Rees, from a manuscript copy transmitted to England at the time that the original manuscript went to press in America."--Pike, Expeditions; ed. by Coues, 1895. The American edition, Baltimore, 1810, was issued under title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana ... 
 Call #:  F42J P637 Vault 
 Extent:  xx, 436 p., [2] p. of plates : maps (1 fold.) ; 30 cm. 
 Subjects:  West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | New Mexico -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke: by order of the government of the United States : performed in the years 1804, 1805, & 1806 : being upwards of three thousand miles, from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri, and Columbia rivers, to the Pacifick ocean : containing an account of the Indian tribes, who inhabit the western part of the continent unexplored, and unknown before : with copious delineations of the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the Indians    
 Creator:  Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 
 Clark, William, 1770-1838
 Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780
 Mackenzie, AlexanderSir, 1763-1820
 United States President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
 Publication:  Hubbard Lester, Philadelphia,1809. 
 Notes:  Map wanting in copy one. The earliest American edition of the spurious account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is made up of material taken principally from three sources: (A) Message from the President of the United States communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red river and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar, Washington, 1806; (B) Jonathan Carver's Travels through the interior parts of North America...in the years 1766,1767, and 1768; (C) Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage from Montreal...through the continent of North America in the years 1789 and 1793. For detailed descriptions of contents of this and other spurious editions, cf. History of the expedition...of Lewis and Clark, ed. by Elliott Coues, 1893, v. 1, p. cviii-cxvii; and V. H. Paltaits' Bibliographical data, in Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed, by R. G. Thwaites, 1904, v. 1, p. ixvi-ixx. Vocabulary of the Knisteneaux (Crees): p. 122-141. 
 Call #:  F42.5 T78 Vault 
 Extent:  300 p. : front. (fold. map) 5 pl. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Lewis and Clark Expedition -- (1804-1806) | Indians of North America | Cree language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc | United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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4Title:  An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, rivers: performed by order of the government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807 : and a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when conducted through these provinces, by order of the captain-general, in the year 1807    
 Creator:  Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 
 United States Army. Corps of Engineers.
 Publication:  C. & A. Conrad & Co, Philadelphia,1810. 
 Call #:  F42J P636 Vault 
 Extent:  5, 277, 65, 53, 87 p., [4] leaves of plates : port. ; 22 cm. + 
 Subjects:  West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | New Mexico -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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5Title:  The Southwestern expedition of Zebulon M. Pike    
 Creator:  Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 
 Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959
 Publication:  R.R. Donnelley & sons company, Chicago,1925. 
 Notes:  Includes reproduction of t.-p. of original edition: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans., La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, rivers; performed by order of the government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain ... By Major Z.M. Pike ... Philadelphia, 1810. "The first portion of the journal treating of his Mississippi trip has been omitted."--Publisher's pref. 
 Call #:  F42J P638 
 Extent:  xxii p., 2 l., 3-239 p. front. (port.) fold. map. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | New Mexico -- Description and travel
 
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