Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXII

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 Middleand Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Memoir

• Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites, Editor, Karl Bodmer, Illustrator
• ISBN: 1230000186201
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: September 23, 2013
• Language: English

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXII
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 Middleand Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement

This edition features
 • illustrations
 • a linked Table of Contents, and Footnotes
 
CONTENTS
Preface
Author's Preface
Translator's Preface
CHAPTER I—Voyage to Boston, Stay in that City, and Journey to New York, from May 17th to July 9th, 183237
CHAPTER II—Stay in New York, Philadelphia, and Bordentown, from the 9th to the 16th of July57
CHAPTER III—Residence at Freiburg and Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, from July 30th to August 23rd72
CHAPTER IV—Journey to the Pokono, and through the Blue Mountains to Mauch Chunk, in the Coal District, from the 23rd to the 30th of August87
CHAPTER V—Description of Mauch Chunk and its Coal Mines—Journey through the Lehigh Valley to Bethlehem, and last Residence in that Town, from August 31st to September 16th119
CHAPTER VI—Journey from Bethlehem to Pittsburg, over the Alleghanys, from September 17th to October 7th128
CHAPTER VII—Journey from Pittsburg to New Harmony, on the Wabash, from the 8th to the 19th of October144 6
CHAPTER VIII—Description of the Country about New Harmony, in Indiana, and Winter Residence there from October 19th, 1832, to March 16th, 1833163
CHAPTER IX—Journey from New Harmony to St. Louis on the Mississippi, and our Stay there, from March 16th to April 9th198
CHAPTER X—Journey from St. Louis to the Cantonment of Leavenworth, or to the Borders of the Settlement, from the 10th to the 22nd of April237
CHAPTER XI—Journey from the Cantonment of Leavenworth to the Punca Indians, from April 22nd to May 12th255
CHAPTER XII—Voyage from L'Eau qui Court to Fort Pierre, on the Teton River (the Little Missouri), and Stay there, from May 13th to June 4th291
CHAPTER XIII—Voyage from Fort Pierre, on the Teton River, to Fort Clarke, near the Villages of the Mandans, from the 5th to the 19th of June330
CHAPTER XIV—Voyage from Fort Clarke to Fort Union, near the Mouth of the Yellow Stone River, from the 19th to the 24th of June356
CHAPTER XV—Description of Fort Union and its Neighbourhood