The first American West
Subtitle: the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
By: University of Chicago Library and Filson Historical Society.
Contributors: University of Chicago. Library.; Filson Historical Society.; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio River Valley -- Sources; Ohio River Valley -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: "The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images."
Notes: Title from Web page (viewed on May 3, 2002).

Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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