The "apocryphal" Lewis and Clark, first published in 1809, in response for the growing demand by the public for more information on the expedition. Though the present edition is more honest in its title, when first issued the implication was that it was an official publication, though it is actually little more that a compilation and rehashing of Jefferson's Message of 1806, Patrick Gass's Journal published in 1807, and plagiarizations of portions of Jonathan Carver and Alexander Mackenzie. Despite its suspect origins, and the massive criticism it has received from scholars, it is important in that it helped to shape the impressions of America at the time. Ownership signatures of Henry Johnson (three, one of them dated 1816), Esther Johnson, and a few other inscriptions to endpapers and flyleaves.