| 1 | Creator: | Freeman, Thomas,d. 1821. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An account of the Red River, in Louisiana, drawn up from the returns of Messrs. Freeman and Custis, to the War Office of the United States, who explored the same, in the year 1806
| | | | Dates: | 1806 | | | | Abstract: | This printed account includes a list of trees and shrubs, a catalog of vegetables and the time of their flowering, and a list of animals and minerals found in the vicinity of the Red River, as well as meteorological observations. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.315 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany -- Louisiana. | Custis, Peter | Freeman, Thomas,d. 1821. | Lists. | Louisiana -- Description and travel. | Meteorology -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | Mineralogy -- Louisiana. | Red River (Tex.-La.) | Zoology -- Louisiana. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Paulmier, Charles Francois Adrien le,chevalier d'Annemours,1742-1809. | Requires cookie* | | | | Wilson, James P.(James Patriot),1769-1830. | | | | Title: | Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1803 | | | | Abstract: | This item is a detailed description of the geography, population, natural resources, and agriculture of the Ouachita River area of the Louisiana Territory. Describes mounds; mentions Cataoulou Indians; also gives figures as to numbers of white and Indian hunters. These pages are a record of travel on a road built between Choctaw and Chickasaw country, with comments on the condition of Indian-white relations, the increase in white population, and Wilson's stay, at Muscle Shoals, with Cherokee chiefs Doublehead and Skiowska. Wilson finds the Indians have good farms, furnishings, fences, and stock, and one Indian runs an inn. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.6.Ex7 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cain, Robert H., -- tr. | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Doublehead. | Exploration. | Indians of North America--Social life and customs | Louisiana -- Description and travel. | Louisiana Purchase -- Discovery and exploration. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arkansas. | Native America | Ouachita County (Ark.) -- Economic conditions -- To 1803. | Ouachita County (Ark.) -- Population -- To 1803. | Ouachita River (Ark. and La.) | Paulmier, Charles Francois Adrien le,chevalier d'Annemours,1742-1809. | Skiowska. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Wilson, James P.(James Patriot),1769-1830. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Hunter Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1796-1809 | | | | Abstract: | Though less well known than their peers Lewis and Clark, William Dunbar and George Hunter played an important role in the early scientific exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. While the original goal of organizing a southern counterpart to the Corps of Discovery proved overly ambitious, Dunbar and Hunter provided important geographic information for future explorations and gave the first scientific description of the Hot Springs of Arkansas and Ouachita Mountains.
The four surviving journals of George Hunter provide engaging accounts of travel in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley in 1796, 1802, and 1809, and include the most interesting record of the expedition to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805, complete with his detailed notes on natural history and meteorology. The volumes also contain various references to relations with the Delaware, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. The APS owns a contemporary copy of Hunter's journal (
"Journal up the Red and Washita Rivers with William Dunbar"; Mss.917.6.Ex7), from which extracts were printed in Thomas Jefferson,
Message... Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri (New York, 1806), and which is described by Isaac J. Cox, "An Early Explorer of the Louisiana Purchase," APS
Library Bulletin 1946: 73. The journals were edited by John F. McDermott and published in APS
Transactions 53 (1963). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H912 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas--Description and travel | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Delaware Indians | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Exploration | Exploration. | Geology--Kentucky | Hot springs--Arkansas | Hunter, George H. | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Illinois--Description and travel--18th century | Journals (notebooks) | Kentucky--Description and travel--18th century | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Louisiana--Description and travel | Meteorology--Louisiana | Native America | Natural history--Louisiana | Osage Indians | Ouachita Mountains Region (Ark. And Okla.)--Discovery and exploration | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 4 | Creator: | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Requires cookie* | | | | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | | | | Title: | Expedition Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1804-1806 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes three journals bound into one volume: two by Willima Dunbar and one by Zebulon Pike.
Both manuscripts by William Dunbar document the expedition up the Red and Ouachita Rivers to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805. The "Journal... to the Mouth of the Red River" (200p.) is the fullest available record of the activities of the expedition from the time of their departure from St. Catharine's Landing on October 16, 1804, until their return to Natchez, Miss., on January 26, 1805. The "Journal of a geometrical survey" includes a record of course and distances as well as a thermometrical log and other brief notes. The two are bound together in a volume with Zebulon Montgomery Pike's journal of a voyage to the source of the Mississippi, 1805-1806.
The Pike journal documents the expedition to explore the geography of the Mississippi River led by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike in 1805-1806, and his attempts to purchase sites from the Dakota Indians for future military posts, and to bring influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. Less a literary masterpiece than a straightforward record in terse military prose, the journal provides a day by day account of the journey and the activities of Pike and his small contingent during this early exploration of present day Minnesota. It was printed with variations and omissions in
An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana... (Philadelphia, 1810), and was edited in Donald Jackson, ed.,
The Journals of Zebulon Pike: with Letters and Related Documents (Norman, Okla., 1966). | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.7.D91 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas--Description and travel | Caddo Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Chippewa Indians | Dakota Indians | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Exploration | Exploration. | Hot springs--Arkansas | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Journals (notebooks) | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Louisiana--Description and travel | Meteorological Data | Meteorology--Louisiana | Minnesota--Description and travel | Mississippi River--Description and travel | Native America | Natural history--Louisiana | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Ouachita Mountains Region (Ark. And Okla.)--Discovery and exploration | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Sketchbooks | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 5 | Creator: | Russell, Richard Joel, 1895-1971 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Joel Russell papers, [ca. 1930s-1971]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1930-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence, lectures, notebooks, reports, photographs, and maps. There is much in Russell's papers concerning the Department of Geography at L.S.U., as well as faculty and research concerns and other needs of the university. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R91,.d,.m,.n | | | | Extent: | 6.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Caddo Indians | Diagrams. | Diaries. | Gelatin silver prints | Geography. | Geology. | Howe, Henry V. (Henry Van Wagenen), 1896- | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Caddo Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Cameron Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Iberia Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--LaSalle Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Lafourche Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Saint Mary Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Tensas Parish--Antiquities | Indians of North America--Louisiana--Vermilion Parish--Antiquities | Jones, Wellington Downing, 1886- | Kniffen, Fred Bowerman, 1900- | Lawson, Andrew C., (Andrew Cowper), 1861-1952 | Lectures. | Louderback, George D., (George Davis), 1874-1957 | Louisiana -- Description and travel. | Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. -- Dept. of Geography. | Maps. | Mencken, H. L., (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Morgan, James P., (James Plummer), 1919- | Morocco -- Description and travel. | Naval research -- United States. | Notebooks. | Penck, Albrecht | Physical geography -- Rhône River Valley (Switzerland and France) | Prehistoric peoples--Louisiana | Price, W. Armstrong, (William Armstrong), 1889- | Public lands -- Louisiana. | Rhône River Delta (France) | Roy, Chalmer John, 1907- | Russell, Richard Joel, 1895-1971 | Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975 | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | Sternberg, Hilgard O'Reilly | Taensa Indians | Thornthwaite, C. W., (Charles Warren), 1899-1963 | Turkey -- Description and travel. | United States. -- Office of Naval Research. | |
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