Mound builders of the Missouri : Essay read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1873.

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Mound builders of the Missouri : Essay read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1873.

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Essay on the terrain of the Missouri Valley, including a brief history of the Lewis and Clark expedition with biographical information on Meriwether Lewis, and a description of the various Indian tribes in the West.

87 p. ; 28 cm.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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