Beltrami's Search for the Source of the Mississippi
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Beltrami's Search for the Source of the Mississippi
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After a lonely and hazardous journey (especially after he quarrelled and parted company with Major Stephen Long’s expedition) Beltrami (1779-1855) claimed to have discovered the source of the Mississippi in present day Minnesota, and his route is marked on this map.
It was published in ‘A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Discovery of the Mississippi and Bloody River’. Read more
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Lithographed map, printed area measurement approx 62.5 x 21 cm, black and white, slight offsetting, blank verso. Read less