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Cuming’s Tour to the Western Country

by Fortescue Cuming

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An English traveller of culture sets out in 1807 and journeys across Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River through Ohio and Kentucky, and on toward the Mississippi. He notes inns, landlords, towns, farms and river traffic of the young republic’s frontier, edited with notes by Reuben Gold Thwaites.

A valuable eyewitness record of the early American West for historians and readers of travel. Download the free EPUB.

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