Category: Travel Writing
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
[153] Hay Cabin Creek and Blue Water are now known respectively as the Little Blue River and Big Blue River (or Creek; not to be confounded with the Big Blue of Kansas). Both de...
17. volume iii, note 123.--ED.[038] Corn Island was the site of the first settlement at Louisville. George Rogers Clark built a fort on the island in the spring of 1778, to protect his supplies. The twenty f...
23. volume v of our series, note 52.--ED.[193] Joshua Pilcher was a Virginian who came to St. Louis when a young man, during the War of 1812-15, and there plied his trade of hatter. He became a director of the bank of...
13. CHAPTER IEarly in April, 1819, the several persons constituting the exploring party had assembled at Pittsburgh. It had been our intention to commence the descent of the Ohio, before the...
21. volume v, note 31.--ED._Productus spinosus_, SAY.--Longitudinally and transversely subequally striated, the transverse striæ somewhat larger than the others; a few remote short spines, or acute tuberc...
18. volume v, note 20.--ED.[105] The grants of land in Louisiana under Spanish rule were in a marked degree irregular and heterogeneous. Only those were complete which had received endorsement by the gove...
11. CHAPTER X--Account of the Omawhaws. TheirThe present volume and the three which succeed it are devoted to a reprint of Edwin James's _Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Ye...
12. PART I OF JAMES'S ACCOUNT OF S. H. LONG'S EXPEDITION, 1819-1820WHOSE LIBERAL VIEWS, ENLIGHTENED POLICY, AND JUDICIOUS MEASURES, WHILE THEY HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED WITH THE UTMOST CIRCUMSPECTION AND ECONOMY, HAVE CONTRIBUTED IN AN EMINENT DEGRE...
20. volume v, note 21. For the Iowa, see Brackenridge's _Journal_,[126] The coal-fields of Missouri have an area of about twenty-six thousand square miles; a line drawn southwest from the mouth of the Des Moines River to Vernon County roughly...
19. volume iii, note 9.Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858) was a French scientist and traveller. It has been said that the expedition of Humboldt and Bonpland in tropical America (1799-1804) "laid the foundatio...
15. volume v, note 156. Chief Logan was not present at thisbattle. The full text of his famous speech is given in Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia;" Ford, _Writings of Thomas Jefferson_ (New York, 1894), iii, p. 156; Roosevelt, _Winning o...
14. volume iii, note 45.--ED.[016] Charleston, the seat of Kanawha County, West Virginia, is situated on the Great Kanawha, about fifty miles above its mouth. The site was included in a grant made (1772) by...
2. Part I of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition,ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTSBURGH TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Ma...
1. VOLUME XIVA 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...
16. volume iv, note 171.--ED.5. CHAPTER III--Tumuli and Indian graves about9. CHAPTER VII--Further Account of the Konza4. CHAPTER II--The Ohio below the Rapids at8. CHAPTER VI--Mouth of the Konzas. Arrival at7. CHAPTER V--Death of Dr. Baldwin. Charaton3. CHAPTER I--Departure from Pittsburgh.6. CHAPTER IV--Settlement of Cote Sans Dessein.10. CHAPTER VIII--Winter Cantonment near Council