Peel’s Prairie Provinces: University of Alberta Library, a Division of Learning Services

Peel 171

Snelling, William Joseph [info]. Tales of the Northwest, or, Sketches of Indian life and character. Boston, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, Little, & Wilkins, 1830.

Physical description: viii, 288 p.; 16 cm.

Language: English

About one-third of the book relates a trip with Major Long to the Red River in 1823 ("The Bois Brûlé," pages 84-196). Also published, New York: Garland Pub., 1976 (viii, 288p.); with introduction by John Theodore Flanagan, as William Joseph Snelling's tales of the Northwest , Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1936 (xxix, 254p.); Minneapolis, Minn.: Ross & Haines, 1971 (xxix, 254p.); Minneapolis, Minn.: Dorset Press, 1985 (xxiii, 252p.); as Tales of the Northwest , edited by David Stineback, New Haven, Conn., College and University Press, 1975 (222p.). See also Peel 154, for another account of the Long expedition.

Subject headings:

• Indians of North America--Social life and customs
• Prairie Provinces--Description and travel