Early Western Travels
1748-1846
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 Far West during the Period of Early American Settlement.
COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES
1—Weiser’s Journal of a Tour to the Ohio in 1748. Croghan’s Tours into the Western Country, 1750-1765. Post’s Western Tours, 1758-59. Morris’s Journal relative to his Thrilling Experiences on the Maumee in 1764.
2—Long’s Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, 1768-1782.
3—Michaux (André) Travels into Kentucky in 1795-96. Michaux (F. A.) Travels to the West of the Alleghanies, 1802. Harris’s Tour into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghanies, 1803.
4—Cuming’s Tour to the Western Country, etc., 1807-1809.
5—Bradbury’s Travels in the Interior of America, 1809-1811.
6—Brackenridge’s Voyage up the Missouri, 1811. Franchere’s Voyage to the N. W. Coast, 1811-1814.
7—Ross’s Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon, 1810-13.
8—Buttrick’s Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, 1812-19. Evans’s Tour of 4000 miles through Western States and Territories, 1818.
9—Flint’s Letters from America, 1818-1820.
10—Hulme’s Tour in the West (Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois), 1818. Flower’s Letters from Lexington and Illinois, 1819. Flower’s Letters from Illinois, 1820-1821. Woods’s Residence in English Prairie, Illinois, 1820-1821.
11, 12—Faux’s Tour to the United States, 1819-1820. Welby’s Visit to North America and Illinois, 1819-1820.
13—Nuttall’s Travels into Arkansas Territory, 1819.
14, 15, 16, 17—S. H. Long’s Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820.
18—Pattie’s Personal Narrative of Expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, 1824-1827.
19, 20—Ogden’s Tour through the Western Country, 1821-1823. Bullock’s Journey through Western States, 1827. Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839.
21—Wyeth’s Journey from Atlantic to Pacific, 1832. Townsend’s Journey across the Rockies to Columbia River, 1834.
22, 23, 24, 25—Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied’s Travels in the Interior of North America with folio Atlas, 1843.
26, 27—Flagg’s Far West, 1836-1837. De Smet’s Letters and Sketches. Residence among Indian Tribes, 1841-1842.
28, 29—Farnham’s Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., 1839. De Smet’s Oregon Missions and Travels, 1845-1846.
30—Palmer’s Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846.
31—Index to the Series.
Edited with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological, and Bibliographical Notes, and Introductions and Index, by