Early western travels, 1748-1846
Subtitle: a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel : descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement
By: edited with notes, introduction, index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Contributors: Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913, ed.
Publisher: A.H. Clark Co.
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Notes: Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [2002-2003]
Master and use digital copies are also available from the Library of Congress Web site; technical details on the digital scanning are available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collbuild.lhbtn
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764); title: v. 2. John Long's journal, 1768-1782; title: v. 3. André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96 ; François André Michaux's Travels west of Alleghany Mountains, 1802 ; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a tour northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803; title: v. 4. Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809); title: v. 5. Bradbury's Travels in the interior of America, 1809-1811; title: v. 6. Brackenridge's Journal up the Missouri, 1811 ; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest coast, 1811-1814; title: v. 7. Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813; title: v. 8. Buttrick's Voyages, 1812-1819 ; Evan's Pedestrious tour, 1818; title: v. 9. Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820; title: v. 10. Hulme's Journal, 1818-19 ; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21 ; and Wood's Two years' residence, 1820-21; title: v. 11. Part I (1819) of Faux's Memorable days in America, 1819-1820; title: v. 12. Part II (1820) of Faux's Memorable days in America, 1819-1820 ; and Welby's Visit to North America, 1819-20; title: v. 13. Nuttall's travels into the Arkansas territory, 1819; title: v. 14-17. Part I-IV of James's Account of S.H. Long's expedition, 1819-1820; title: v. 18. Pattie's Personal narrative, 1824-1830 ; Willard's Inland trade with New Mexico, 1825 ; and Downfall of the Fredonian republic ; and Malte-Brun's account of Mexico; title: v. 19. Ogden's Letters from the West, 1821-1823 ; Bullock's Journey from New Orleans to New York, 1827 ; and Part I of Gregg's Commerce of the prairies, 1831-1839; title: v. 20. Part II of Gregg's Commerce of the prairies, 1831-1839; title: v. 21. Wyeth's Oregon, or a short history of a long journey, 1832 ; and Townsend's Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834; title: v. 22. Part I of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's travels in the interior of North America, 1832-1834; title: v. 23. Part II of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America, 1832-1834; title: v. 24. Part III of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the interior of North America, 1832-1834; title: v. 25. Comprising the series of original paintings by Charles Bodmer, to illustrate Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America, 1832-34; title: v. 26. Part I of Flagg's The far West, 1836-1837; title: v. 27. Part II of Flagg's The far West, 1836-1837 ; and De Smet's Letters and sketches, 1841-1842; title: v. 28. Part I of Farnham's Travels in the great western prairies, etc., May 21-October 16,1839; title: v. 29. Part II of Farnham's Travels in the great western prairies, etc., October 21-December 4, 1839 ; and De Smet's Oregon missions and travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846; title: v. 30. Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846; title: v. 31-32. Analytical index to the series.