Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1

New Harmony on the Wabash--The Environs--Forests--Animals--Geological Formation--Climate--Aborigines--Remains of the former Population--The present Indians--The White Usurpers--...

Running-water River (l'eau qui court)--Punca Creek--Remarkable Mountains--Cedar Island--Delay caused by the insufficient Depth of the Water--First Sight of Buffaloes and Antelop...

Easton on the Delaware--Morris Canal--View of the Blue Mountains--Delaware Gap--Dutotsburg--Chestnut Hill--Sach's Public house on the Pokono--Height of the Pokono--Long Pond--To...

Mount Vernon--Mouth of the Wabash--Shawneetown--Battery Rock--Cave-in-Rock--Cumberland River--Tenessee River--Mouth of the Ohio--Cape Girardeau--Grand Tower--St. Genevieve--Merr...

Dangerous place, Wassoba-Wakandaga--Independence River--Blacksnake Hills, with Roubedoux Trading House--The Joways and Saukies--Nadaway River--Wolf River--Grand Nemahaw River--C...

Singular conformation of the Country--Traces of Fire--Chayenne Island and River--Former abode of the Arikkaras--The Woodcutters alarmed by the Indians--Cabris or Antelopes--Wolv...

The erection of Fort Union was commenced in the autumn of 1829, by Mr. Mc Kenzie, and is now completed, except that some of the edifices which were erected in haste are under re...

Departure from St. Louis--The Engages, or Voyageurs--St. Charles--Gasconade River--Osage River--Jefferson City--Boonville and Franklin--Arrow Rock--Chariton--Grand River--Battle...

Voyages to North America are become everyday occurrences, and little more is to be related of them than that you met and saluted ships, had fine or stormy weather, and the like;...

Ruhptare, the second Village of the Mandans--The Villages of the Manitaries on the Knife River--Interview with the Manitaries--Winter Villages of that Nation--Remarkable Hills--...

Cannonsburg--Wheeling--Embarkation in the Nile Steam-boat--Marietta, on the Muskingum River--Indian Antiquities--Flat-boats--Gallipolis--Portsmouth, at the mouth of the Scioto R...

Allentown--Reading--Lebanon--Harrisburg--Mexico--Mifflin Town--Valley of the Juniata--Huntington--Alexandria--Yellow Springs--The Summit--Ebensburg--Hunting parties--Wild Scener...

All the members of our party had now joined, and, though our baggage was not yet arrived from Boston, I resolved, in order to make myself acquainted with the interior of Pennsyl...

New York is but little inferior to the capital cities of Europe, with the exception of London and Paris. It has, at present, 220,000 inhabitants, and its commerce is so extensiv...

Early trans-Mississippi exploration was undertaken largely in the interests of science. The great expedition of Lewis and Clark (1804-06) was, both in conception and plan, a sci...

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was a well-known traveller, ethnologist, and historian. Born in New York, he studied at both Middlebury and Union colleges. His first tour to...

Mauch Chunk is a village of about 200 houses, in the deep and narrow Lehigh Valley. The houses form almost one row only, and a small street in the lateral valley of the Mauch Ch...

[217] Morgan's Island is just below Nemaha City, in the Nebraska county of the same name. Probably it took its title from Colonel Willoughby Morgan, for whom see our volume xiv,...

[261] The name Shannon was given to the first creek by Lewis and Clark, for one of their men, George Shannon, who here rejoined them after an absence of sixteen days, when he ha...

Immense additions have been made of late years to our knowledge of the extensive continent of North America. A large portion of that country, which, only a few years ago, was co...

[161] Astor's company had originally been organized in 1808. After absorbing the Mackinac Company it was until 1816 known as the South West Company, when a re-organization occur...

[124] Herculaneum is a small village in Jefferson County, Missouri, at the mouth of Joachim Creek, about twenty-eight miles below St. Louis, and a few miles above the hamlet of...

Watapinat, a Fox Indian, is cited as being here portrayed. This drawing could not, however, be engraved; and so another Musquake (Fox) Indian, Wakassasse was pictured.--MAXIMILI...

[113] Several fruitless attempts were made to establish a city at the confluence of the two rivers. Trinity, long time a rival of Cairo, was first settled in 1817 at Cache River...

[28] The Americans report of this pine that, if it is cut down, oaks and other trees immediately grow up in its place; and if these are cut down, the pines grow up again, and so...

[75] In Ferussac's "Bulletin des Sciences," 1831, there is a notice of a colossal animal, sixty feet long, lately discovered there, and the whole story was invented, merely to a...

[328] For the Minitaree, see our volume v, pp. 113, 114, note 76. An extended account is given by Washington Matthews, "Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians," in Uni...

[111] For Golconda consult Woods's _English Prairie_, in our volume x, p. 327, note 77. Sister's Island, a narrow strip a mile in length, lies twenty miles below Elizabethtown,...

Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen was a German botanist who voyaged around the world in 1830-32. Upon his return he was called to a chair at Berlin, but died prematurely in 1840 at t...

Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, was laid out by Owen Davis (1816); and Point Pleasant, five miles farther down the river, in the same county, was platted in the same year by Jose...

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...