Carver, a colonial officer, describes his journey from Boston to the Great Lakes and up the Mississippi into the country of the Dakota and Ojibwa in 1766 to 1768. Half the book is given to the origin, dress, manners, religion, warfare and language of the Indians he met, with vocabularies, and to the animals, plants and lakes of the region.
A bestseller of 1778 that shaped European ideas of the American interior, though parts of it borrow from earlier writers. Download the free EPUB.