Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Schoolcraft's Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake -- Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Brulé) Rivers -- Appendices -- A. Letters and Reports Relating to the Organization of the Expedition in 1831 and 1832 -- B. Reports and Letters of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft on the Expedition of 1832 -- C. Journal and Letters of Lieutenant James Allen -- D. Journal, Letters and Reports of Dr. Douglas Houghton -- E. Journal and Letters of the Reverend William Thurston Boutwell -- F. Newspaper Reports of Expedition of 1832 -- Bibliography -- Index.