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Early Western Travels 1748–1846 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
Early Western Travels 1748–1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Econom...
2. Volume VIIIA PEDESTRIOUS TOUR, OF FOUR THOUSAND MILES, THROUGH THE WESTERN STATES AND TERRITORIES, during the Winter and Spring of 1818. Interspersed with Brief Reflections upon a great va...
3. volume i of our series, note 62.—ED.4. volume i of our series, notes 70, 72, and 73.—ED.The Black Swamp, extending from the Sandusky to the Maumee River, and covering an area of over one hundred and twenty miles in length and an average of forty in width, was entir...
5. volume i of our series, note 85.—ED.Evans probably refers here to the fall five miles from the mouth of Fox River, at De Pere (French, _Rapides des pères_), so called because it was the site of a Jesuit Indian mis...
6. volume ii of our series, note 38.—ED.The maps of Evans’s period represent White Bear Lake as the source of the Mississippi, and Red or Mississagan Lake as the origin of Red River of the North. The latter retains it...
7. volume iii of our series, notes 11, 12; F. A. Michaux’s _Travels_,8. volume iii of our series, note 37.—ED.The portage path from the Cuyahoga to the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum, a distance of eight miles, is probably one of the oldest highways in the West, having been the rout...
9. volume iii of our series, note 35.—ED.Fort Washington—afterwards within the limits of Cincinnati—was established (1789) by Major Doughty opposite the mouth of the Licking River, to protect the frontier from the Indi...
10. volume iii of our series, note 139.—ED.The “Muscle Shoal” Rapids fall within northern Alabama. The improvement of the Tennessee at this point was long under discussion. In 1825 commissioners were appointed by the gov...