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Red-lined English edition of this imporant map intended to illustrate Stephen H. Long's route from his Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. Performed in the Year 1823, published in London.
Long's second expedition, followed his expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains. The map depicts the Great Lakes, the headwaters of the Mississippi, and the Red River of the North, with the river origins and the complicated hydrography of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the border area rendered in far greater detail than ever before. Long's route is shown from Union and Washington in Pennsylvania, through Columbus, Ohio, Ft. Wayne Indiana, Chicago, Ft. Crawford, the Falls of St. Anthony, and then up the Mississippi River to Fort Douglas and Ft. Gerry and finally Fort Alexander on Lake "Winnepeek," with annotations showing the various campsites by date. An annotation notes that the expedition undertook 72 Portages on trips to and from Lake Winnepeg.
The map extends west to the Missouri Rier, from Kansas Indian Villages north to Fort Mandan. Long's map is one of the most comprehensive attempts at mapping the Upper Mississippi River and its Tributaries prior to Nicollet's map in 1843, nearly 20 years later.
Long attended Dartmouth and entered the Army in 1814 as a Second Lieutenant of Engineers. After teaching mathematics at West Point he went west to explore the Upper Mississippi. In 1819 he was ordered to explore the Rocky Mountains, for which he became well known. He had a celebrated and very distinguished career with the Army Topographical Engineers.
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