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Note from page 518: 2. Probably James Handasyd Perkins, Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events, Which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Five (1847). After Perkins's death in 1849, several editions were published in St. Louis under the direction of John Mason Peck.