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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

ethnologist, author, poet, was born March 29, 1793, in Albany county, N. Y. He was an eminent ethnologist and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent among the Indians, chiefly at Mackinaw.

He discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his many works are included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic Discoveries; Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes; Narrative of an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian and His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty Years' Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse. He died Dec. 10, 1864, in Washington, D. C.