Important report reviewing the various past explorations of the Northwest Coast, including those of Sir Francis Drake, Captain Cook, and Lewis and Clark, and also containing an account "of a purported journey by Samuel Adams Ruddock in 1821 from Council Bluffs to the mouth of the Columbia River. Ruddock claimed to be a member of a trading party that supposedly traveled up the north bank of the Platte River, crossing below the forks on May 26, and thence southwest 410 miles to Santa Fe, arriving there on June 8." They then veered northwest, eventually reaching "the Multnomah of Lewis and Clarke. They then followed the course of this river to its junction with the Columbia and reached the mouth of the Columbia on the first day of August, completing the journey from the Council Bluffs in seventy-five days." Wagner-Camp comments that "To reach the shores of the Pacific in seventy-five days from the Missouri River by way of Santa Fe would have been a remarkable feat, if it had happened. Unfortunately, however, no corroborative evidence has every been advanced to confirm Ruddock's fanciful story..." Howes B264; Sabin 4067; Streeter 3339; Wagner-Camp 31.