THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PATRICK GASS, NOW SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO THE PACIFIC, UNDER LEWIS AND CLARK, IN 1804-5-6; ALSO, A SOLDIER IN THE WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, FROM 1812 TO 1815... TOGETHER WITH GASS' JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION CONDENSED; and Sketches of Some Events Occurring during the Last Century in the Upper Ohio Country, Biographies, Reminiscences, etc.
Wellsburg, VA: Jacob & Smith, Publishers and Printers, 1859. First edition. 12mo. 280 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three plates. The story of the Corps of Discovery and its exploration of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase seen through the lens of this biography of the last surviving member of the expedition. "The biography..... More