In 1820 Schoolcraft travelled with the Cass expedition through the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi in search of the river’s source; in 1832 he led his own party to the lake he named Itasca and identified it as the origin. This narrative combines both journeys with reports on the copper mines of Lake Superior, the geology of the shores and the Ojibwe peoples they met.
A primary source for the exploration of the Old Northwest by one of the founders of American ethnology. Download the free EPUB.