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61	Title:	Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population
	Creator:	Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
	Publication:	Collins and Hannay, New-York,1825.
	Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
	Call #:	F25J S372t Vault
	Extent:	iv, 459 p. plates, maps (1 fold.) 22 cm.
	Subjects:	Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| United States -- Exploring expeditions \| Northwest, Old -- Description and travel
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62	Title:	How we find relics: Pleasures and perils on the Mississippi river in a floating home ... A series of letters
	Creator:	Riggs, Chauncey Wales.
	Publication:	W. B. Conkey company, printers, Chicago,1893.
	Call #:	E74 A721R
	Extent:	107, [1] p. incl. front. (port.) illus. 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Mounds -- Arkansas \| Hunting -- Arkansas \| Arkansas -- Antiquities \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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63	Title:	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
	Creator:	Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
	Publication:	A.H. Clark Co, Cleveland, Ohio,1904-1907.
	Call #:	F42J T548
	Extent:	32 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
	Subjects:	United States -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel \| Cleveland imprints 1904-1907
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64	Title:	Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of Missouri: also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, & 1803. With a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious ceremonies of the people of those countries
	Creator:	Perrin du Lac, (Franðcois Marie)M, 1766-1824
	Publication:	Printed for Richard Phillips, London,1807.
	Call #:	Pam. P564
	Extent:	106, [2] p. 21 cm.
	Subjects:	Indians of North America \| Louisiana -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
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65	Title:	The loyal West in the times of the rebellion: also, before and since: being an encyclopedia and panorama of the western states, Pacific states and territories of the Union. Historical, geographical, and pictorial
	Creator:	Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
		Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
	Publication:	F. A. Howe, Cincinnati,1865.
	Notes:	Added t.-p., illustrated in colors.
	Call #:	E470 B234
	Extent:	xii, [13]-764 p. front., illus. (incl. music) plates, 2 maps. 23 cm.
	Subjects:	Mississippi River Valley -- History \| Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| West (U.S.) -- History \| West (U.S.) -- Civil War, 1861-1865 \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 \| Ohio -- History
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66	Title:	Travels in America performed in 1806: for the purpose of exploring the rivers, Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity
	Creator:	Ashe, Thomas, 1770-1835
	Publication:	Printed Newburyport [Mass.] Re-printed for W. Sawyer & co. by E. M. Blunt, London,1808.
	Call #:	F25J A824T1
	Extent:	ix, [11]-366 p. 18 cm.
	Subjects:	Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| United States -- Description and travel \| Allegheny River \| Monongahela River \| Mississippi River -- Description and travel \| Ohio River -- Description and travel
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67	Title:	Travels in America, performed in the year 1806: for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity
	Creator:	Ashe, Thomas, 1770-1835
	Publication:	Printed for R. Phillips, London,1809.
	Call #:	F25J A824T2
	Extent:	316 p. illus. 22 cm.
	Subjects:	Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| United States -- Description and travel \| Allegheny River \| Monongahela River \| Mississippi River -- Description and travel \| Ohio River -- Description and travel
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68	Title:	Writings of Caleb Atwater
	Creator:	Atwater, Caleb, 1778-1867
	Publication:	Author, printed by Scott and Wright, Columbus [Ohio],1833.
	Notes:	The first paper was originally published in 1820 in Archµologia americana. Transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society. v. 1; the second, separately, at Columbus, Ohio, 1831. Plate 5 duplicated in numbering: plate 8 omitted in numbering.
	Call #:	E74 O37At
	Extent:	7, [1] p., 1 Á., [9]-408 p. incl. illus., 10 plates. 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Mounds -- Ohio \| Indians of North America -- Northwestern States \| Ohio -- Antiquities \| United States -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio imprints 1833
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69	Title:	Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811: including a description of upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and western territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries
	Creator:	Bradbury, John, b. 1768
	Publication:	Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London,1819.
	Notes:	The author ascended the Missouri river in company with the Pacific for company's expedition 1811, under command of Wilson P. Hunt. Appendix: Vocabulary of some words in the Osage language--Oration delivered by the Big Elk, the chief of the Maha nation, over the grave of the Black Buffalo, chief of the Tetons ... 14th July, 1813--Narrative of the expedition of Mr. Hunt [by Ramsay Crooks] extracted from the Missouri gazette--Description of the Missouri territory--Remarks on the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, with the Illinois and western territory, and on the emigrations to those countries--Catalogue of some of the more rare or valuable plants discovered in the neighbourhood of St. Louis and on the Missouri.
	Call #:	F25J B798T1 Vault
	Extent:	xiv, [17]-346 p. : fold. map ; 24 cm.
	Subjects:	Pacific Fur Company \| Indians of North America -- Northwestern States \| Overland journeys to the Pacific \| Botany -- Missouri River Valley \| Osage language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc \| Missouri River -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
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70	Title:	Sketch of a journey through the western states of North America: from New Orleans, by the Mississippi, Ohio, city of Cincinnati and falls of Niagara, to New York, in 1827
	Creator:	Bullock, W. (William), fl. 1808-1828
		Drake, Benjamin, 1794-1841
		Mansfield, Edward Deering, 1801-1880
	Publication:	J. Miller, London,1827.
	Notes:	The frontispiece has title "Plan of a proposed rural town, to be called Hygeia, the property of W. Bullock, on the river Ohio, Kentucky ..." This locality is evidenty at or near the present Ludlow, Ky.
	Call #:	F34Y C574J B8 Vault
	Extent:	xxxi, viii, 135 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| United States -- Description and travel \| Ludlow (Ky.) \| Hygeia (Ky.)
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71	Title:	Scenes and adventures in the army: or, Romance of military life
	Creator:	Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895
	Publication:	Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia,1857.
	Call #:	F42J C773
	Extent:	432 p. ; 20 cm.
	Subjects:	United States. -- Army -- Military life \| United States. -- Army. -- Infantry Regiment, 6th \| United States. -- Army. -- Calvalry, 1st. -- Dragoons (1833-1861) \| Black Hawk War, 1832 \| Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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72	Title:	Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809)
	Creator:	Cuming, Fortescue, 1762-1828
	Publication:	A. H. Clark, Cleveland,1904.
	Notes:	A reprint, including facsimile t.-p., of the author's Sketches of a tour to the western country ... Pittsburgh, 1810.
	Call #:	F42J T548 v.4
	Extent:	4 p. Á., [7]-377 p. 25 cm.
	Subjects:	Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| Pennsylvania -- Description and travel \| Ohio -- Description and travel \| Kentucky -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Cleveland imprints 1904
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73	Title:	The western navigator: containing directions for the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi, and information concerning the towns, &c., on their banks
	Creator:	Cumings, Samuel.
	Publication:	E. Littell, Philadelphia,1822.
	Notes:	The atlas has title: The western navigator; containing charts of the Ohio river...and of the Mississippi river...Accompanied by directions for the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi...vol.1. The volume of text forms v. 2 of the work. Later editions published under title: The western pilot. "Cumings' editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot'...were amplifications of [The navigator of Zadok] Cramer...without acknowledgment of the main source of their material."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 5, p. 126. "List of steam-boats...in operation on the Mississippi and confluent waters...1822": v. 2, p. [69]-70. "General description of the regions around the gulf of Mexico": v. 2, p. [71]-170. "Marine insurance": v. 2, p. [71]-229.
	Call #:	F25J C969W 1822 Vault
	Extent:	4, 232, [6] p. and atlas of 27 fold. maps. 23 cm. & 42 cm.
	Subjects:	Insurance, Marine \| Mississippi River -- Description and travel -- Maps \| Mississippi River -- Navigation \| Ohio River -- Description and travel -- Maps \| Ohio River -- Navigation \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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74	Title:	A topographical description of the state of Ohio, Indiana territory, and Louisiana: comprehending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and their principal tributary streams ; the face of the country, soils, waters, natural productions, animal, vegetable, and mineral ; towns, villages, settlements and improvements ; and a concise account of the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi ; to which is added, an interesting journal of Mr. Chas. Le Raye, while a captive with the Sioux nation, on the waters of the Missouri River
	Creator:	Cutler, Jervis, 1768-1844
		Le Raye, Charles.
	Publication:	Charles Williams, Boston,1812.
	Call #:	F25J C989 Vault
	Extent:	219 p., [5] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley \| Indian captivities \| Dakota Indians \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio -- Description and travel \| Imprints, Early American To 1820
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75	Title:	Geographical sketches on the western country: designed for emigrants and settlers ; being the result of extensive researches and remarks ; to which is added, a summary of all the most interesting matters on the subject, including a particular description of all the unsold public lands, collected from a variety of authentic sources ; also, a list of the principal roads
	Creator:	Dana, E. (Edmund)
	Publication:	Looker, Reynolds & Co. Printers, Cincinnati,1819.
	Notes:	Includes index.
	Call #:	F25J D167 Vault
	Extent:	312 p. ; 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Roads -- United States \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Northwest, Old -- Description and travel \| Southwest, Old -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| Northwestern States -- Description and travel \| Imprints, Early American To 1820 \| Ohio imprints 1819
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76	Title:	The journal of Andrew Ellicott: late commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800: for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America, containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the different countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico, with six maps comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, and part of East Florida. : To which is added an appendix, containing all the astronomical observations made use of for determining the boundary ... likewise a great number of thermometrical observations
	Creator:	Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820
		United States Commissioner on the Boundary between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America.
	Publication:	Printed by William Fry, Philadelphia,1814.
	Notes:	The first edition, Philadelphia, 1803, has a leaf of errata at the end of the appendix. The Library of Congress copy of the present edition is without the errata leaf, but the errors have not been corrected. Number 232 repeated in pagination.
	Call #:	F15J E46 1814 Vault
	Extent:	vii, [1], 299 [i.e. 300], 151, [1] p., [14] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cm. (4to)
	Subjects:	Geographical positions -- Southern States \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Florida -- Description and travel -- To 1865 \| Southern States -- Description and travel \| Southern boundary of the United States \| Imprints, Early American To 1820
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77	Title:	The journal of Andrew Ellicott: late commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800: for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America, containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the different countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico, with six maps ... : To which is added an appendix, containing all the astronomical observations made use of for determining the boundary ... likewise a great number of thermometrical observations
	Creator:	Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820
	Publication:	Printed by Budd & Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia,1803.
	Notes:	Number 232 repeated in pagination. "Errata." and "Directions to the bookbinder." on p. [2] at end. Page [viii] at front, and p. [1] and [3] at end are blank.
	Call #:	F15J E46 Vault
	Extent:	vii, [1], 299 [i.e. 300], 151, [3] p., [14] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm. (4to)
	Subjects:	Geographical positions -- Southern States \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Florida -- Description and travel -- To 1865 \| Southern States -- Description and travel \| Southern boundary of the United States \| Imprints, Early American To 1820
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78	Title:	A topographical description of the western territory of North America: containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, and customs, with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned; to which are added, the discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky, and an essay towards the topography, and natural history of that important country by John Filson
	Creator:	Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828?
		Filson, John, ca. 1747-1788
	Publication:	Printed for J. Debrett, London,1793.
	Notes:	"Report of the secretary of state, to the President of the United States, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizens, within the territory of the United States ... Nov. 10, 1791": p. [417]-483. First edition, London, 1792.
	Call #:	F25J I33a Vault
	Extent:	xvi, 433, [20] p. : ill., 2 fold. maps ; 22 cm.
	Subjects:	Public lands -- United States \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1898 \| Genesee Region (N.Y.) \| Kentucky -- Description and travel
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79	Title:	Trip to the West and Texas: Comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5. With a brief sketch of the Texian war
	Creator:	Parker, A. A. (Amos Andrew), 1791-1893
	Publication:	W. White, B. M. Mussey, Concord, N.H, Boston,1836.
	Notes:	"Interspersed with anecdotes, incidents, and observations."
	Call #:	F25J P23
	Extent:	iv, [5]-380 p. incl. plates. 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Parker, Amos Andrew, -- 1791-1893 \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836 \| Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel \| Texas -- Description and travel
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80	Title:	Prairie farming in America: With notes by the way on Canada and the United States
	Creator:	Caird, JamesSir, 1816-1892
	Publication:	Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London,1859.
	Call #:	B 7671
	Extent:	viii, 128 p. front. (fold. map) 18 cm.
	Subjects:	Agriculture -- United States \| Agriculture -- Canada \| Agriculture -- Mississippi River Valley \| Northwest, Old -- Description and travel \| Canada -- Description and travel \| Illinois -- Description and travel \| Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel \| United States -- Description and travel
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