Category: Travel Writing
Who has not heard of Niagara Falls? And he who has been there, if he possesses ought of a relish for the grand and awful, if he can admire the way and love the voice of God, will never lose the impressions of the scene. The mountain has its majestic forms. But its eloquence, t...
We have already recognised the fact--that the aboriginal tribes of North America have been compelled to retire before the encroachments of the European occupants of their ancien...
22. CHAPTER XXIV.As I was walking one day in the camp of the Winnebagoes, I observed a group of Indians collected around one of the lodges, deeply absorbed in the performance of some strange and...
21. CHAPTER XXII.It might perhaps be expected, that I should give more of the _political_ character of this Council, and make the Court itself as conspicuous, as the place they occupied; that I...
23. CHAPTER XXV.The speeches and anecdotes of this chapter are introduced, not so much because they have an immediate connexion with the main design of this work, as because they are interestin...
20. CHAPTER XXI.The Commissioners and suite had taken lodgings at an inn on the south bank of Fox River, about half a mile from Fort Howard, which is on the opposite side, and down the stream....
16. CHAPTER XVII.It happened, that the Rev. Mr. Williams, the subject of the foregoing Chapter, was at the head of all the movements of the New York Indians, which induced them to emigrate, and...
9. CHAPTER IX.After leaving Lake St. Clair, we run in the evening about fifteen miles up the river, having enjoyed one of the most brilliant sunsets that Italy, or Greece could ever boast of,...
17. CHAPTER XVIII.From Mr. Williams’s, and in his company, I proceeded the next day up Fox River, about ten miles farther, to the settlement occupied by the Stockbridge tribe, last from the State...
19. CHAPTER XX.It had occupied from twelve to fifteen days, after the arrival of the Commissioners at Green Bay, to convene the public Council ordered and contemplated. The day fixed for organ...
12. CHAPTER XII.Before we introduce the particular business, intrusted to the Commission, sent to Green Bay, in 1830; and in whose company I happened to be, in their voyage through the Lakes; i...
15. CHAPTER XVI.“The history of the world,” said one, “is a history of crime and calamity.” And if we may put a commentary on this, it doubtless means, that its most notable features are of thi...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Since the world have agreed in attaching a severe and savage character to the American Aborigines in war; and as I may yet have repeated occasions to develop and describe somewh...
1. CHAPTER I.Who has not heard of Niagara Falls? And he who has been there, if he possesses ought of a relish for the grand and awful, if he can admire the way and love the voice of God, wil...
2. CHAPTER II.From Niagara Falls, long familiar with their various features, as above described, the author of these pages took it in his head to make a distant excursion, in the summer of 18...
18. CHAPTER XIX.While the Stockbridges had planted their tribe at the _Grande Kawkawlin_, on the east bank of Fox River, and in the course of some half-dozen years, reared a flourishing settle...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On the 4th of August the steam-packet, _Sheldon Thomson_, left Detroit for the Upper Lakes, her ultimate destination being Green Bay, with the United States’ Commissioners, boun...
11. CHAPTER XI.The next day was occupied in the disembarcation of a second[5] detachment of the troops, at the garrison of the Saut, and in the transaction of other business appertaining to th...
10. CHAPTER X.The _Saut de St. Marie_, it may be understood, is the name given by the French traders to the Falls, or rapids, which let the waters of Lake Superior down to the level of Lake H...
6. CHAPTER VI.Detroit has long been regarded as the limit of civilization towards the north-west--and to tell truth, there is even yet but little of the character of civilization beyond it. A...
3. CHAPTER III.Lake Ontario, it should be understood, is the last in the chain of those fresh water seas, on the bosoms of which the Author proposed to make his excursion into the North-West T...
5. CHAPTER V.That the author indulged many romantic expectations, in the excursion that was before him, was not only natural, but warranted. He could not reasonably be disappointed, so long...
7. CHAPTER VII.We will not detain the reader any longer at Detroit, except to notice a remarkable instance of capital crime. On the 26th of July, during our stay at Detroit, S. G. S. received...
4. CHAPTER IV.Niagara Falls is yet the common boundary in the West of the pleasure excursions for the summer, with European visitants of the New World, and with the travelling gentry of the U...