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 ...
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...
