Outlets Canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor with an account of the lead and copper deposits in Wisconsin of the gold region in the Cherokee country

Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, George H. Featherstonehaugh. First Edition Reprint . 1970, Minnesota Historical Society. 2 Volumes in slipcase. Includes two fold-out maps and twelve lithographs as they appeared in the original work. Copies are Near Fine. Bindings are tight and sturdy, appearing unread. Slipcase shows a bit of shelfwear. R


A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, describes the extensive travels of George William Featherstonhaugh in Wisconsin, Minnesota and various southern states in 1835 and 1837.

Featherstonhaugh, an Englishman by birth, was a geologist by profession and well qualified to comment on the American scene. By the time of his travels in the 1830s, he had lived in the United States for nearly thirty years. He was also a linguist with an attentive ear for speech. In performing his duties as a geologist for the United States, he visited remote sections of the frontier that few other trained observers had yet an opportunity to see.

In these two volumes Featherstonhaugh chronicles two separate expeditions—a geological expedition in 1835 of the area from Lake Michigan west to the outlets Coteau des Prairies at the headwaters of the Minnesota River, and a tour in 1837 of the mineral lands of Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, and the western Carolinas.
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