Table of Contents

Preface
1: Setting the Stage
2: Cast of Characters
3: Down the Ohio
4: Up the Missouri
5: Overwintering at Engineer Cantonment
6: New Plans and a New Cast of Characters
7: To the Rockies
8: Exploring the Front Range
9: Down the Arkansas
10: The Search for the Red River
11: Epilogue
Appendix I. Animals (Other than Insects) Described by Thomas Say in the Account of the Long Expedition, 1819-1820
Appendix II. Insects Described by Thomas Say from Specimens Collected on the Long Expedition, 1819-1820
Appendix III. Plants Newly Discovered and Described from the Long Expedition, 1820
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

"There is hardly a sentence that is ungraceful."--Donald Worster, author of Wealth of Nature and Under Western Skies
"There is hardly a sentence that is ungraceful."--Donald Worster, author of Wealth of Nature and Under Western Skies
"Howard Evans, well-known entomologist and natural history writer, notes that [the expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Major Stephen H. Long] was the first to specifically recruit members with scientific training. . . . The value of Evans' short, concise work lies in making the scientific accomplishments readily accessible. He includes three appendices listing the plants, insects, and other animals discovered by the expedition's
botanist-geologist Edwin James and its zoologist Thomas Say. Small-scale reproductions of many of the sketches and engravings by the expedition's artists, Titian Peale and Samuel Seymour, enhance the text; and
two useful maps are included."--Journal of the West
"Using the personal and scientific journals of members of the Long Expedition, sent in 1820 to explore the western lands acquired by Thomas Jefferson in 1803, this volume recounts the story of the 16-month trek, describing the personalities involved, their route, the politics of their journey, and their discoveries. Includes b&w photographs and illustrations, with appendices listing the plants, animals, and insects described."--SciTech Book News