Title: A summer journey in the West
First published: 1841
Description: “This little book assumes to be nothing more than a note book of all that passed before the observation of the author, during a summer tour of four thousand miles, through the great lakes; the prairies of Illinois; the rivers Illinois, Mississippi, and Ohio; and over the Alleghany mountains to New York. … the author has added to her notes and letters, some little information regarding the western States, in hopes her book may be of use to future tourists and emigrants, who will here find an account of the distances, prices, and conveyances, throughout the author’s route.”
– From the author’s Preface
Subjects: Description and travel, Frontier and pioneer life, Travel, Sufism
Places: Middle West, Missouri, New York (State), Ohio River Valley, Old Northwest
People: Eliza R. Steele