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Report on Lewis and Clark... A prairie dog?
Report on Lewis and Clark... A prairie dog?
Item # 702419
August 26, 1805
BOSTON GAZETTE, Aug. 26, 1805
* Lewis and Clark Expedition
* Missouri river exploration
* Discovery of the "Prairie Dog" ?
Page 2 has: "National Acquisition" which includes a report stating: "...We learn that a part of the collection of Curiosities collected by Captain Lewis on the Missouri, has reached Baltimore. Among them are a living animal, called the wild dog of the Prairie, and one mag pie. Four mag pies were sent, but one of them destroyed the other three."
A second report talks about the "Louisiana Curiosities" and asks: "...but how Mr. Lewis, or any one in the least acquainted with classing in Zoology came to call the ground fox squirrel a dog is indeed difficult to imagine..." with more.
Any mentions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in period newspapers are rather rare.
Other items include: "Mr. Jefferson's Administration" "Health of Philadelphia".
Four pages, never-trimmed margins, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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