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The Louis Cass expedition, which cost $6300, resulted in a series of anonymous articles in the Detroit Gazette in the winter of 1820-21, a 419 page book by Henry Schoolcraft, and at least 15 scientific papers. Schoolcraft's book, Narrative Journal of Travels...from Detroit...to the Sources of the Mississippi River, sold 1200 copies within a few months of its publication in 1821.

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