Nineteenth-century American travel literature provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and into the history of the nation's settlement. Reuben Gold Thwaites's Afloat on the Ohio is a fine example of the genre, rich in Ohio River personalities, legends, and history as seen through Thwaites's eyes. His six-week journey by skiff covered a thousand miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi. Thwaites's voyage echoes those taken by early explorers, pioneers, and settlers who opened up the West through river travel...
Nineteenth-century American travel literature provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and into the history of the nation's ...
A history of the first two years of the Revolutionary War as told through the eyes of many different participants including the Indians, British, and Americans. This work reproduces numerous original documents including letters, journals, reports, deposit
A history of the first two years of the Revolutionary War as told through the eyes of many different participants including the Indians, British, and ...
Daniel Boone was an Indian fighter, an explorer, a politician and a real American hero. He was a soldier of the American Revolution and an adopted Shawnee. He discovered the Cumberland Gap and opened the Wilderness Road for settlement into the present state of Kentucky. The stories of his exploits and his life have become legendary. Reuben Gold Thwaites, a noted historian and author wrote this biography of one of America's most famous frontiersmen and it is truly a masterpiece. Through countless hours of research of original materials, documents and interviews he created what is undoubtedly...
Daniel Boone was an Indian fighter, an explorer, a politician and a real American hero. He was a soldier of the American Revolution and an adopted Sha...
If stories of westward exploration stir up your imagination, you will enjoy these accounts of the travels of naturalist John Bradbury and others. Bradbury traveled from St. Louis to the Arikara Indian villages, some eighteen hundred miles above the mouth of the Missouri. From there he accompanied Ramsay Crooks to the fur-trading station among the Mandan, two hundred miles farther up river. His observations and experiences among the Native American tribes (both friendly and otherwise) are colorful and informative, as are his wondrous descriptions of rivers and natural features, settlements,...
If stories of westward exploration stir up your imagination, you will enjoy these accounts of the travels of naturalist John Bradbury and others. Brad...
