Idée topographique des hauts du Mississipi [sic] et du Missouri : pour servir à la connaissance d'une partie des nations sauvages qui y habitent / dressée d'après des renseignements donnés par divers voyageurs ; dessinée par Mr. Soulard, ancien S[ub] L[ieuten]ant de port de la marine R[oya]le

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Idée topographique des hauts du Mississipi [sic] et du Missouri : pour servir à la connaissance d'une partie des nations sauvages qui y habitent / dressée d'après des renseignements donnés par divers voyageurs ; dessinée par Mr. Soulard, ancien S[ub] L[ieuten]ant de port de la marine R[oya]le de France, et cap[itai]ne des milices de S[a] M[ajeste] C[atholique] aux Illinois, pour Monsieur de Bouligny, colonel du regiment fixe de la Louisiane, anée 1795, mois d'aout. [ca. 1850]

Shows courses of the Mississippi, Missouri, Assiniboine, and Saskatchewan Rivers, European and Indian villages, forts, Jonathan Carver's expedition route of 1766-1768, and notes regarding James Mackay's 1786-1788 tour up the Saskatchewan to the Rockies and back by the Assiniboine.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 360 x 510 mm.

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