Trip to the West and Texas comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5.

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Leave the pine woods--wet prairie--Trinity river--planter's house--death of an emigrant's wife--perplexities of emigration--an emigrant lost his money--breach of trust in a hired man--beautiful prairies--muddy streams--red cedar--petrified wood--mode of grinding corn--living from hand to mouth--beautiful prospect--Indians on horseback--massacre of twenty Polanders--muddy swamp--Brazos river--Spanish trader--Indians more friendly to Americans than Spaniards--prairie country--Cole's settlement--live oak--Colorado river. 160