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•Imprints, Early American To 1820 (14)
•United States -- Description and travel (11)
•West (U.S.) -- Description and travel (10)
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•Indians of North America (6)
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•Ohio -- Description and travel (5)
•Ohio River -- Description and travel (5)
•New France -- Discovery and exploration (4)
•Southern States -- Description and travel (4)
•United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848 (4)
•Allegheny River (3)
•Cleveland imprints 1904 (3)
•Illinois River (3)
•Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley (3)
•Indians of North America -- Statistics (3)
•Kentucky -- Description and travel (3)
•Monongahela River (3)
•Ohio River -- Navigation (3)
•Universalist churches -- Mississippi River Valley (3)
•Fitch, John, -- 1743-1798 (2)
•Florida -- Description and travel -- To 1865 (2)
•Fulton, Robert, -- 1765-1815 (2)
•Genesee Region (N.Y.) (2)
•Geographical positions -- Southern States (2)
•Illinois -- Description and travel (2)
•Missions -- Mississippi River Valley (2)
•Mississippi River -- Navigation (2)
•Northwestern States -- Description and travel (2)
•Ohio imprints 1856 (2)
•Osage language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc (2)
•Overland journeys to the Pacific (2)
•Pacific Fur Company (2)
•Pennsylvania -- Description and travel (2)
•Public lands -- United States (2)
•Railroads -- United States -- History (2)
•Southern boundary of the United States (2)
•Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River (2)
•Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley (2)
•Steam-navigation -- Ohio River (2)
•Steamboat disasters (2)
•United States -- Exploring expeditions (2)
•United States -- Social life and customs (2)
•United States. -- Army -- Military life (2)
•West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- To 1848 (2)
•West Indies -- Description and travel (2)
•Agriculture -- Canada (1)
•Agriculture -- Mississippi River Valley (1)
•Agriculture -- United States (1)
•Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Description and travel (1)
•American literature -- History and criticism (1)
•Arctic regions (1)
•Arkansas -- Antiquities (1)
•Black Hawk War, 1832 (1)
•Botany -- America (1)
•Botany -- Classification (1)
•Botany -- Missouri River Valley (1)
•Botany -- Missouri River Valley -- History -- 19th century (1)
•Botany -- South America (1)
•Botany -- Spain (1)
•Bradbury, John, -- b. 1768 -- Journeys -- Middle West (1)
•Carver, Jonathan, -- 1710-1780 (1)
•Cherokee Indians (1)
•Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel (1)
•Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Description and travel (1)
•Cleveland imprints 1904-1907 (1)
•Columbus, Christopher (1)
•Cotton growing -- United States (1)
•Cotton manufacture -- United States (1)
•Dakota Indians (1)
•Dakota language -- Dictionaries (1)
•Dakota language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc (1)
•Flint, James, -- 1779-1855 -- Correspondence (1)
•Flint, Timothy, -- 1780-1840 -- Correspondence (1)
•Florida -- Description and travel (1)
•Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River Valley (1)
•Goddard, James Stanley, -- d. 1795 (1)
•Great Lakes -- Description and travel (1)
•Haiti -- Description and travel (1)
•Hunting -- Arkansas (1)
•Hunting -- United States (1)
•Hygeia (Ky.) (1)
•Imprints, Early English To 1750 (1)
•Indian captivities (1)
•Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old (1)
•Indians of North America -- Southern States (1)
•Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) (1)
•Insurance, Marine (1)
•Lewis and Clark Expedition -- (1804-1806) (1)
•Louisiana -- Description and travel -- To 1803 (1)
•Louisiana -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 (1)
•Ludlow (Ky.) (1)
•Michigan -- Description and travel (1)
•Minnesota -- Description and travel (1)
•Minnesota -- History -- To 1858 (1)
•Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.) -- Description and travel (1)
•Missions -- Ohio River Valley (1)
•Mississippi River (1)
•Mississippi River -- Commerce (1)
•Mississippi River -- Community (1)
•Mississippi River -- Description and travel -- Maps (1)
•Mississippi River Valley -- History (1)
•Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (1)
•Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 (1)
•Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1898 (1)
•Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs (1)
•Missouri -- Description and travel (1)
•Missouri River -- Description and travel (1)
•Missouri River Valley -- Description and travel (1)
•Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) -- Description and travel (1)
•Mounds -- Arkansas (1)
•Mounds -- Ohio (1)
•Ohio -- Antiquities (1)
•Ohio -- History (1)
•Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (1)
•Ohio River -- Description and travel -- Maps (1)
•Ohio imprints 1818 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1819 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1831 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1833 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1836 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1837 (1)
•Ohio imprints 1848 (1)
•Ojibwa Indians (1)
•Parker, Amos Andrew, -- 1791-1893 (1)
•Paul Wilhelm, -- Duke of Wèurttemberg, -- 1797-1860 (1)
•Prairies (1)
•Prairies -- United States (1)
•Roads -- United States (1)
•Russia -- Description and travel (1)
•Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel (1)
•Siberia -- Description and travel (1)
•Slavery -- United States (1)
•Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 (1)
•Southwest, Old -- Description and travel (1)
•Superior, Lake -- Description (1)
•Texas -- Description and travel (1)
•Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836 (1)
•United States -- History -- 1815-1861 (1)
•United States -- Public lands (1)
•United States. -- Army. -- Calvalry, 1st. -- Dragoons (1833-1861) (1)
•United States. -- Army. -- Cavalry, 1st (1)
•United States. -- Army. -- Infantry Regiment, 6th (1)
•Voyages and travels (1)
•West (U.S.) -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (1)
•West (U.S.) -- History (1)
•West Florida -- Description and travel (1)
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41Title:  Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres: giving an account of a voyage to Canada, and travels through that vast country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico, undertaken by order of the present king of France    
 Creator:  Charlevoix, Pierre-Franðcois-Xavier de, 1682-1761 
 Publication:  Printed for R. Goadby, London,1763. 
 Notes:  Marginal notes. Not the same translation as "Journal of a voyage to North-America", 1761, and lacking the Preliminary discourse and letter I, there given. Includes index. 
 Call #:  F1030 C478L Vault 
 Extent:  xiv, 384 p. : fold. map ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Canada -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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42Title:  A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present king of France ; containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana ; with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the inhabitants ; a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts    
 Creator:  Charlevoix, Pierre-Franðcois-Xavier de, 1682-1761 
 Publication:  Printed for J. Exshaw, and J. Potts, Dublin,1766. 
 Notes:  A reprint of "Letters to the dutchess of Lesdiguiáeres," edition of 1763 with the Preliminary discourse and letter I, supplied from "Journal of a voyage to North-America," edition of 1761. 
 Call #:  F1030 C478V Vault 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill., plates, fold. maps ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Canada -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | West Indies -- Description and travel
 
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43Title:  A description of the English province of Carolana, by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French la Louisiane: as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi [sic] the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent together with an account of the commodities of the growth and production of the said province    
 Creator:  Coxe, Daniel, 1673-1739 
 Publication:  Printed for Edward Symon, London,1727. 
 Call #:  F25J C879D1 Vault 
 Extent:  [52], 122 p. : fold. map ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Florida -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early English To 1750
 
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44Title:  Sketches of a tour to the western country: through the states of Ohio and Kentucky, a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a trip through the Mississippi territory, and part of West Florida, commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809    
 Creator:  Cuming, Fortescue, 1762-1828 
 Publication:  Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, Pittsburgh,1810. 
 Call #:  F36J C969S Vault 
 Extent:  504 p. ; 18 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
 
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45Title:  The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territories: comprising a geographical and statistical description of the states ; Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio ; the territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan ; and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New-York ; with a complete list of the road and river routes, west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the connecting roads from New-York, Philadelphia, and Washington City, to New-Orleans, St. Louis, and Pittsburg ; The whole comprising a more comprehensive account of the soil, productions, climate, and present state of improvement of the regions described, than any work hitherto published; accompanied by a map of the United States, including Louisiana, projected and engraved expressly for this work    
 Creator:  Darby, William, 1775-1854 
 Publication:  Kirk and Mercein, New York,1818. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  F25J C213E 
 Extent:  311, xiii p., [4] p. of plates : ill., fold. maps ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- To 1848 | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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46Title:  The Emigrant's guide, or, pocket geography of the western states and territories: containing a description of the several cities, towns, rivers, antiquities, population, maufactories, prices of land, soil, productions, and exports    
 Publication:  Published by Phillips & Speer, Cincinnati,1818. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  F25J E53 Vault 
 Extent:  266 p. ; 15 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820 | Ohio imprints 1818
 
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47Title:  A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor: with an account of the lead and copper deposits in Wisconsin ; of the gold region in the Cherokee country ; and sketches of the popular manners, &c    
 Creator:  Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866 
 Publication:  Richard Bentley, London,1847. 
 Call #:  F25J F288 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Cherokee Indians | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848 | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.) -- Description and travel
 
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48Title:  The far West, or, A tour beyond the mountains: embracing outlines of western life and scenery ; sketches of the prairies, rivers, ancient mounds, early settlements of the French, etc    
 Creator:  Flagg, Edmund, 1815-1890 
 Publication:  Harper & Bros, New York,1838. 
 Call #:  F25J F574 
 Extent:  2 v. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Missouri -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Description and travel
 
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49Title:  Statistics of the West: at the close of the year 1836    
 Creator:  Hall, James, 1793-1868 
 Publication:  J. A. James & co, Cincinnati,1836. 
 Notes:  Later editions pub. under titles: "Notes on the western states" and "The West: its soil, surface, and production." "Western steamboats" [including an alphabetical list]: p. 213-263. 
 Call #:  F25J H177S Vault 
 Extent:  xviii, [2], 13-284 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River | Steam-navigation -- Ohio River | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1836
 
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50Title:  Statistics of the West: at the close of the year 1836    
 Creator:  Hall, James, 1793-1868 
 Publication:  J. A. James & co, Cincinnati,1837. 
 Notes:  Later editions pub. under titles: "Notes on the western states" and "The West: its soil, surface, and production." "Western steamboats" [including an alphabetical list]: p. 213-263. 
 Call #:  F25J H177S1 Vault 
 Extent:  xviii, [2], 13-278 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Public lands | Ohio imprints 1837
 
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51Title:  The West: its soil, surface, and productions    
 Creator:  Hall, James, 1793-1868 
 Publication:  Derby, Bradley & co, Cincinnati,1848. 
 Notes:  Half-title: "Statistics of the West." "The greater portion of the ... work was published ... under the title of 'Notes on the Western states.'"--Pref. 
 Call #:  F25J H177W 
 Extent:  [5]-260 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Public lands -- United States | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1848
 
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52Title:  Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland et de la Caroline Septentrionale: contenant les riviáeres d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokâee, Wabash, des Illinois, du Mississipi, &c    
 Alt. Title:  A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina. French    
 Creator:  Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789 
 Kennedy, Patrick.
 Le Rouge.
 Publication:  Le Rouge, Paris,1781. 
 Notes:  Translated by G.L. Le Rouge. 
 Call #:  E163 H978 Vault 
 Extent:  68 p, [3] p. of plates : fold. maps ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Statistics | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois River
 
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53Title:  A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, & the climate, soil and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral: the mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes & of every part, laid down in the annexed map    
 Creator:  Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789 
 Kennedy, Patrick.
 Publication:  Printed for the author, and sold by J. Almon, London,1778. 
 Notes:  Second impression, with corrections. "The map, which the following sheets are inteded to explain, comprehends almost the whole of the country lying between the 34th and 44th degrees of latitude, and the 79th and 96th degrees of longitude."--Pref. The map issued separately. 
 Call #:  E163 H972 Vault 
 Extent:  1 p. 1., li, 67 p. 2 fold, plans, fold. tab. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Statistics | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois River
 
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54Title:  A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina    
 Creator:  Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789 
 Hicks, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), b. 1875
 Kennedy, Patrick.
 Publication:  Cleveland,The Burrows brothers company, 1904. 
 Notes:  Contains reprint of original t.-p., London, 1778. "This edition is limited to two hundred and forty-five numbered copies, this being no. ." "The map, which the following sheets are intended to explain, comprehends almost the whole of the country, lying between the 34th and 44th degrees of latitude, and the 79th and 93d degrees of longitude."--Pref. "Biographical sketch of Thomas Hutchins": p. 7-51. "Mr. Patrick Kennedy's journal of an expedition undertaken by himself and several coureurs de bois in the year 1773,-- from Kaskaskias village in the Illinois country, to the head waters of the Illinois river": p. 122-134. "A list of the different nations and tribes of Indians in the northern districts of North America, with the number of their fighting men, &c. &c.": p. 135-137. "A list of the works of Thomas Hutchins, including notes on the map and book reprinted, by Frederick Charles Hicks": p. [53]-66. 
 Call #:  E163 H974 
 Extent:  143 p. fold. map (in pocket) 2 plans, fold. facsim., fold. tab. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Statistics | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois River | Cleveland imprints 1904
 
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55Title:  A topographical description of the western territory of North America: containing a succinct account of its climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners and customs, with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned, and an accurate statement of the various tribes of Indians that inhabit the frontier country    
 Creator:  Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828? 
 Publication:  Printed for J. Debrett, London,1792. 
 Notes:  First edition. 
 Call #:  F25J I33 Vault 
 Extent:  2 p. Á., xv, 247 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 | Genesee Region (N.Y.)
 
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56Title:  New states and territories: or The Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, North-western, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in their real characters, in 1818; showing, the situation, size, number of inhabitants, &c. of each. Also, a description of the rivers, roads, settlements, qualities and prices of lands, and the advantages and disadvantages of each, and of the new parts of York state, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky    
 Creator:  Miller, Andrew. 
 Publication:  s.n.], S.l,1819. 
 Call #:  F33DC M647 1819 Vault 
 Extent:  96 p. : ill. ; 14 cm. 
 Subjects:  Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Ohio -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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57Title:  A journey in the back country    
 Creator:  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 
 Publication:  Mason brothers, New York,1860. 
 Notes:  Preceded by the author's "A journey in the seaboard slave states", 1856, and "A journey through Texas", 1857. 
 Call #:  F25J O51 
 Extent:  xvi, 492 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States | Cotton growing -- United States | Cotton manufacture -- United States | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Southern States -- Description and travel
 
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58Title:  Marches of the dragoons in the Mississippi Valley: an account of marches and activities of the First Regiment United States Dragoons in the Mississippi Valley between the years 1833 and 1850    
 Creator:  Pelzer, Louis, 1879-1946 
 Publication:  The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia,1917. 
 Notes:  "Captain Boone's journal of an expedition over the western prairies" [May 14 - July 31, 1843] : p. 181-237. 
 Call #:  F42DC P393 
 Extent:  x, 282 p. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States. -- Army. -- Cavalry, 1st | United States. -- Army -- Military life | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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59Title:  A correct view of that part of the United States which lies west of the Allegany mountains: with regard to religion and morals    
 Creator:  Schermerhorn, J. F. (John Freeman), 1786-1851 
 Mills, Samuel John, 1783-1818
 Publication:  P. B. Gleason and co., printers, Hartford,1814. 
 Call #:  F36R S326C Vault 
 Extent:  53 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Missions -- Ohio River Valley | Missions -- Mississippi River Valley | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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60Title:  Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842    
 Creator:  Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 
 Publication:  Lippincott, Grambo and Co, Philadelphia,1851. 
 Call #:  E77 S372P 
 Extent:  xlviii, 703 , 16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- History -- 1815-1861
 
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