1820 A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interiour of North America with Map

Description: A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interiour of North America… Illustrated by a Map of the Country, Daniel Williams Harmon, Printed by Flagg and Gould, Andover, 1820, frontispiece, fold-out map, 432 pp, 5.25 x 8.375”, half leather modern binding, 8vo. Book is in good condition. Nicely bound in modern binding, has preserved text well. Fresh end papers. Text block in good condition with light scuffing to fore edges, toned with foxing. Unmarked. Map in poor condition. Map torn with non-archival tape repairs and small pin hole marks. All parts of the map are present. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. “This journal purports to have been only revised and published by Mr. Daniel Haskell, but he is said to have introduced religious reflections not made by the author. Harmon's narrative of events and peculiarities among the Indian tribes is believed by those familiar with him, and the regions he visited, to be correct; but the life of a fur trader, dispensing fire-water to the Indians, while daily witnessing the murders it produced, was not favorable to religious emotions. Mr. Haskell makes the writer reject the proffer of an Indian concubine by her father, with very proper pious emotions; but Mr. Schoolcraft intimates that the latter were not more consonant with his character than the story with his continence. A copious vocabulary of the Cree and Knistenaw language is given on pp. 385-413. The journal of events in his life as an Indian trader, terminates at page 273, and two subdivisions entitled `Account of the Indians living East of the Rocky Mountains,' and `Account of the Indians living West of the Rocky Mountains,' are evidently written by another hand, perhaps from Harmon's dictation." - Field RAREA1820HOQB

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Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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