Letters, 1819-1827.

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Letters, 1819-1827.

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These letters are addressed to Benjamin Edwards' father, Oliver Edwards, and briefly mention the expedition-- of spending the winter of 1819 at Fort Lisa, of problems with the steamboat, and of not getting paid by the government for his part in the expedition. By August 1822, Edwards "left the U.S. Boat" and was employed on the steamboat Hope in New Orleans and later at a sawmill on the Mississippi River.

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Edwards, Oliver Murray

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Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864

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David Ives Bushnell was born 28 April 1875 in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in St. Louis schools and in Europe. He worked as an assistant archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University from 1901-1904. Bushnell contributed to the Handbook of American Indians and wrote numerous books on Native American Indians, including Native villages and village sites east of the Mississippi, (1919), Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (1922), The Manahoac tr...

Edwards, Benjamin Frank

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Benjamin Edwards was a member of what was originally known as the "Yellowstone Expedition," under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. The party spent the winter at Ft. Lisa, five miles below Council Bluffs. In the meantime, the War Department changed the destination of the expedition to an excursion by land to the source of the Platte River and thence by the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. From the description of Letters, 1819-1827. (American Philosophical Society Libra...