Narrative of an Expedition: To the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, and Lake of the Woods, performed in the year 1823 By William H Keating. William H. Keating was a highly unusual man for the early frontier. He was successful as a lawyer, an editor, businessman, and scientist. He was professor of minerology and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and acted as geologist and historian of Major Stephen J. Long's Second Expedition. He served in the Pennsylvania Legislature and became one of the founders of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. This book is the full record of Long's Second Expedition, certainly a prime source of historical information on the early exploration and Indian activity in the upper mid-west.
