(LEWIS AND CLARK) Issue of the Independent Chronicle featuri

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(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Issue of the Independent Chronicle featuring the first report from the Lewis & Clark Expedition. 4 pages, 20 x 12 inches, on one folding sheet, disbound; moderate foxing, 4 small holes in text area, none affecting main articles; subscriber's name inked in upper margin. Boston, 29 July 1805

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Contains the full text of Meriwether Lewis's important 7 April 1805 letter to Thomas Jefferson--the first report from the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was sent from Fort Mandan down the Missouri River as the rest of the party headed west. This issue also contains the full text of the 1804 Treaty of Vincennes, in which the United States purchased what is now the southern tip of Indiana from the Delawares.