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Title: Carte du Missouri Levee ou Rectisiee dans toute son Etendue
Date: 1805
Description: Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of the Missouri ; also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, & 1803. With a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious ceremonies of the people of those countries / By M. Perrin du Lac. Translated from the French.

Title: Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Date: 1744
Description: With numerous botanical illustrations and splendid maps by hydrographer, Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, Charlevoix represents a culmination in the middle of the eighteenth century of what the French knew, or thought they knew, about North America and its rivers and varied lands drained by them. He was sent to North America to find a route to the Pacific and through years of travel and study recommended doing this by the ascent of the Missouri River or through the establishment of posts along traditional native trading routes in Canada, through strategic stepping stones. Charlevoix and Bellin set out to prove that the Missouri and the Mississippi had basically the same headwaters, and the maps in these volumes reflect that thinking in the supposed nearness of the sources of both rivers. The Great Lakes through a vast system not only were connected to the Atlantic but to the Pacific as well. the works of the French explorers and cartographers heavily interested Thomas Jefferson. Charlevoix considered the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers the finest in the world., Statement of Responsibility: Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale / par le P. de Charlevoix.

Title: Copy of Letter from William Clark, May 15, 1807
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1800-05-17
Description: Handwritten copy of a letter from William Clark to Colonel Hunt about arrangements to return a group of Sioux Indians safely to their lands in May of 1807.
Text: No 12 St Louis May 15 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieaux In Habiting the border of the Missouri arrived at this place with Mr. Durion Sub Agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they down they were fired on by a party of Indians Supposed to be Ottoes, which has alarmed them very much Those Sieux have requested protection
Show moreNo 12 St Louis May 15 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieaux In Habiting the border of the Missouri arrived at this place with Mr. Durion Sub Agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they down they were fired on by a party of Indians Supposed to be Ottoes, which has alarmed them very much Those Sieux have requested protection
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Title: Letter from William Clark to Colonel Thomas Hunt, May 15, 1807
Page From: info:fedora/umsl:39462
Date: 1807-05-15
Description: Letter from William Clark to Thomas Hunt in May of 1807 discussing arrangements for the protection of a group of Sioux Indians who wish safe passage back to their lands.
Text: No 11 St Louis May 15th, 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieoux inhabiting the borders of the Missouri arrived at this place with Wm. Durion fed. agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they were fired on by a party of Indians supposed to be Ottoes; which has alarmed them very much. Those Sieoux have requested protection, asked
Show moreNo 11 St Louis May 15th, 1807 Dear Sir A few days ago a Deputation from Several Bands of the Sieoux inhabiting the borders of the Missouri arrived at this place with Wm. Durion fed. agent (appointed by Genl. Wilkinson) for the Missouri. On their way down they were fired on by a party of Indians supposed to be Ottoes; which has alarmed them very much. Those Sieoux have requested protection, asked
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Title: Draught of the River Missis[s]ippi from the Balise up to Fort Chartres
Date: 1770
Description: This is the most important description of old and new settlements along the Mississippi River Valley in English in the 18th century by a soldier who volunteered to bring new knowledge to the British command in North America concerning Louisiana, all readers having to the time of publication of this new book depended far too long on out of date sources. Pittman himself had noted that “Louisiana is

Title: Plates from "The North American Sylva" by François André Michaux
Description: Francois Andre Michaux (1770 - 1855) was a French botanist commissioned by the French government in the early 1800's to explore the forests of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. By 1810 Michaux had completed the North American Sylva, which was published in Paris from 1810 to 1813 and translated into English five years later. The Sylva is illustrated with works by Pierre Joseph Redoute

Title: Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Red Flowering Maple (Acer rubrum)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Shell bark Hickory (Juglans squamosa)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Georgia Bark (Pinckneya pubens)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus canadensis)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Box Elder (Acer negundo)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Cork Oak (Quercus suber)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: White Maple (acer eriocarpum)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Black Walnut
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Live Oak (Quercus virens)
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Sugar Maple
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Laurel Oak
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

Title: Butter Nut
Description: The Mercantile's prints are thought to be from the Philadelphia printings of Nuttall's publications in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s.

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