Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768 is a book by Jonathan Carver, an early explorer of North America. The work details his journey westward from Fort Michilimackinac, through the Great Lakes region, to the Mississippi River, and then upriver to the land of the Sioux Indians. Carver spent a winter with the Sioux on the Minnesota River before joining another expedition aiming for the Pacific Ocean. Though the expedition was ultimately abandoned due to a lack of supplies, Carver's journal was published in 1778 and became a popular account of the upper Mississippi River valley and its inhabitants.1