Showing pictures of the principal cities and towns, public buildings and remarkable and picturesque scenery, on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers this illustrated

Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to th

Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution