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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: M-009: General Daniel Bissell Papers
Description: This collection contains 31 hand-written letters bound in a single volume. The correspondence covers the years 1800-1820. Correspondents include Gen. James Wilkinson; Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike; Gov. William Henry Harrison; Henry Dearborn; William Clark; Frederick Bates; Gov. Meriwether Lewis; and Auguste Chouteau
Immediately after the Louisiana Territory was ceded by France to the United

Title: Minutes of the Baptist Association in the District of Goshen
Date: 1801
Description: Held at the County-Line Meeting-House, Caroline County, Virginia, Third Friday in October--'til Lords day, inclusive, 1801

Title: Fur Trade Ledger
Date: 1809, 1809
Description: Each entry in this notebook is headed by the native name of the individual tribesman involved, and lists each item traded, against which are shown symbols (mostly "0" or "1") each of which must indicate a specific number of pelts received in exchange. Most of the items traded are guns, ammunition, knives, beaver traps, tobacco, tomahawks and "half axes." Some rough penciled notes in a different

Title: Sunday Amusements in St. Louis
Date: 1882-06-17
Description: Image from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from June 17, 1882. The image depicts a crowd gathered to see the entertaining contents of a tent. The image is based on a sketch by C. Upham.

Title: Minutes of the Broad River Baptist Association, 1806
Date: 1806
Description: Held at Cedar Sprink meeting-house, in Spartanburgh district, South-Carolina, on Saturday the 18th of October, 1806.

Title: Journal Of A Tour Into The Territory Northwest Of The Alleghany Mountains
Date: 1805
Description: Made In The Spring Of The Year 1803. With A Geographical And Historical Account Of The State Of Ohio. Illustrated With Original Maps And Views.

Title: Minutes of the Holston Association of Baptists
Date: 1809
Description: Held at Lick Creek Meeting House, Greene county, and State of Tennessee the second Friday in August, and following days, 1809.

Title: M-391 Ramsay Crooks Fur Trade Ledger
Date: 1809, 1809
Description: Ramsay Crooks had immigrated into Canada from Scotland in 1803 but soon moved to Northern Michigan as clerk to a fur trader named Robert Dickson. In 1810 he was persuaded by Wilson Price Hunt, who was John Jacob Astor's agent in St. Louis, to join Astor's projected overland expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River. Prior to that, perhaps during the short period when he was in an unsuccessful

Title: Pierson Letter
Date: 1801-02-19
Description: vote was taken "31 times" and the results were the same, with no majority. At the time the letter was written, Thomas Jefferson had won the presidency after Delaware abstained from voting in the 36th round of voting to take place in the House of Representatives on February 17, 1801.

Title: The Father of His Country Decanter
Description: Clear transparent decanter with profile picture of George Washington with the title "The Father of his Country" on one side. The other side features a profile picture of General Taylor and reads " General Taylor Never Surrenders." Produced by Dyottville Glass works (Philadelphia, PA)

Title: Minutes of the Redstone Baptist Association, 1808
Date: 1808-09
Description: Convened at Uniontown Fayette County Pennsylvania

Title: Minutes of the Redstone Baptist Association
Date: 1807-09
Description: Convened at Tenmile, Washington County, Pennsylvania

Title: Report, In Part, of the Committee of Revisal, and Unfinished Business
Date: 1804-11-08
Description: Government document dealing with the funding of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Title: M-565 Barbeau, Charles Fur Trader's Manuscript Map of Illinois Country
Date: 1803
Description: Manuscript map by fur trader Charles Barbeau. The map illustrates the Illinois Country surrounding the Mississippi River and Kaskaskia River around 1803-1804. The map highlights settlements in the area at the time, including “Fort L’Kentucky” and three English trading posts. Travel times are also noted between various points, and an illustration of an animal appears at the bottom of the page. The

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