Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration

by Patrick L. Halley and Roger L. Nichols

Book Overview

Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. He led three major and several minor expeditions up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers and the Red River of the north, as well as exploring the central and southern Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes. His campanions included engineers, cartographers, Naturalists, ethnologists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806127244
• ISBN13: 9780806127248
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"