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1Title:  Journal of a voyage from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony, in 1819    
 Parent:  State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Report and collections ... 1869-1872. Madison, 1872. 23 cm. v. 6, p. [188]-219    
 Creator:  Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833 
 Publication:   
 Notes:  "[Letter from] Maj. Thomas Forsyth to Gov. Wm. Clark" (dated: St. Louis, Sept. 23, 1819): p. 215-219. 
 Call #:  F41B W811Co v.6 
 Extent:  p. [188]-219 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  James Kirke Paulding on the Mississippi, 1842    
 Parent:  J. Miss. hist. Journal of Mississippi history. [Jackson, Miss., Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History in cooperation with the Mississippi Historical Society]. v. 10, no. 4, Oct. 1948, p. 317-344    
 Creator:  Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860 
 Publication:   
 Call #:  F24D J68 v.10, no.4 
 Extent:   
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  Life on the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 
 Wager, Willis, 1911-
 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
 Publication:  Heritage Press, New York,[1959, c1944] 
 Notes:  Author's pseud., Mark Twain, at head of title. The special contents of this edition copyright, 1944, by The Limited Editions Club. 
 Call #:  F25J C625B 
 Extent:  xxviii, 418 p. illus., plates (part col.) 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
 
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4Title:  Fifty years on the Mississippi: or, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power on ocean, lakes and rivers--the first steamboats on the Hudson, the Delaware, and the Ohio rivers--navigation of western rivers before the introduction of steam--character of the early navigators--description of first steamboats--steamboat New Orleans in 1811, and sixty consecutive boats, when and where built--their effect upon the settlement of the valley of the Mississippi--character and speed of boats at different periods--appropriations by Congress for the improvement of western water ways-- floods in the Mississippi valley for 150 years--Mississippi river commission and its work. Rapid increase and decline of river transportation. Causes of the decline--destruction of steamboats on western waters--biographies of prominent steamboatmen    
 Creator:  Gould, Emerson W., b. 1811 
 Publication:  Nixon-Jones printing co, Saint Louis,1889. 
 Call #:  F25NB G696 
 Extent:  xv, 749 p. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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5Title:  Voyage in a six-oared skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817    
 Creator:  Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864 
 Publication:  Henry B. Ashmead, book and job printer, Philadelphia,1860. 
 Call #:  F34B M665Cn v.2 
 Extent:  87 p., [1] leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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6Title:  Diary: a trip from New York to the falls of St. Anthony in 1845    
 Creator:  Moore, Nathaniel Fish, 1782-1872 
 Pargellis, Stanley McCrory, 1898-
 Publication:  Pub. for the Newberry Library by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago,1946. 
 Notes:  Maps on lining-papers. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 81-98) 
 Call #:  F33J M82 
 Extent:  xviii, 101, [1] p. incl. front. (port.) illus. plates, map. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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7Title:  The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi: with a geographical description of that river    
 Creator:  Pittman, Philip. 
 Publication:  Printed for J. Nourse, London,1770. 
 Call #:  F25J P689 
 Extent:  viii, 99 p. 4 fold. maps, 4 fold. plans. 28 x 22cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803
 
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8Title:  Old times on the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 
 Publication:  Belford Brothers Publishers, Toronto,1876. 
 Notes:  First edition. Unauthorized publication of "Old times on the Mississippi," reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly, Jan.-June, 1875. 
 Call #:  B 6427 
 Extent:  [1]-157 [1] p., 1 Á. 17.9 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs
 
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9Title:  Description of Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi river: painted on three miles of canvas: exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Missouri river to the city of New Orleans; being by far the largest picture ever executed by man    
 Creator:  Banvard, John, 1815-1891 
 Publication:  J. Putnam, printer, Boston,1847. 
 Call #:  Pam. B1249 
 Extent:  48 p. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Panoramas | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  The king of rivers: with a chart of our slave and free soil territory    
 Creator:  Montgomery, Cora, 1807-1878 
 Democratic Party (N.Y.) General Committee of Young Men.
 Publication:  C. Wood, New-York,1850. 
 Notes:  "This article, which appeared in the Democratic review for December, 1849, is one of the concluding chapters of a work ... now in preparation ... entitled 'Our mother land'. It is published by the Democratic Committee, with the consent of the author." 5,000 copies published by the "Democratic Republican Young Men's General Committee, Tammany Hall." 
 Call #:  Pam. C2346 
 Extent:  19 p. map. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 19th century | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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11Title:  Conclins' new river guide, or, A gazetteer of all the towns on the western waters: containing sketches of the cities, towns, and countries bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their principal tributaries; together with their population, products, commerce, &c., &c., &c.; and many interesting events of history connected with them    
 Creator:  Conclin, George. 
 Publication:  J.A. & U.P. James, Cincinnati,1853. 
 Notes:  At head of title: A book for all travelers. With minor exceptions this is a reprint of the 1848 ed. 
 Call #:  F25J C744C 1853 
 Extent:  128, [4] p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel -- Gazetteers
 
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12Title:  Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90    
 Creator:  Forman, Samuel S., 1765-1862 
 Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891
 Publication:  R. Clarke & co, Cincinnati,1888. 
 Notes:  Narrative written in 1849. Includes index. 
 Call #:  F25J F724 
 Extent:  67 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1888
 
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13Title:  James' river guide: containing descriptions of all the cities, towns, and principal objects of interest, on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley ... with full tables of distances, and many interesting historical sketches of the country    
 Creator:  James, U. P. (Uriah Pierson), 1811-1889 
 Publication:  U.P. James, Cincinnati,1859. 
 Notes:  Earlier editions published by G. Conclin with title: Conclin's new river guide. 
 Call #:  F25DC J294 1859 
 Extent:  128 p. : ill., 44 maps ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1859
 
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14Title:  The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi: with a geographical description of that river illustrated by plans and draughts    
 Creator:  Pittman, Philip. 
 Hodder, Frank Heywood, 1860-1935
 Publication:  The A.H. Clark Company, Cleveland,1906. 
 Call #:  B 2102 
 Extent:  165 p. incl. facsim. fold. maps, fold. plans. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 | Cleveland imprints 1906-
 
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15Title:  Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States: extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as a member of the expedition under Governor Cass in the year 1820    
 Creator:  Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 
 Publication:  E. & E. Hosford, Albany,1821. 
 Notes:  Added t.p., engraved. Includes index. 
 Call #:  F33J S372 
 Extent:  419, [4] p., [22] p. of plates (some fold.) : ill., fold. map ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Great Lakes -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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16Title:  Travels on an inland voyage: through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New-Orleans, performed in the years 1807 and 1808    
 Creator:  Schultz, Christian, ca. 1770-ca. 1814 
 Publication:  Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J,[1968] 
 Notes:  Reprint of the 1810 ed., with a new introd. by T. D. Clark. 
 Call #:  E164 S387 1968 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. illus., maps. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Description and travel | Ontario -- Description and travel | Great Lakes -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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17Title:  [Documents, papers, materials and publications relating to the Northwest and the state of Illinois]    
 Creator:  Beckwith, H. W. (Hiram Williams), 1833-1903 
 La Salle, Robert Caveliersieur de, 1643-1687
 Aubry, Charles Phillipe, d. 1770
 Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818
 Public Archives of Canada
 Publication:  The H. W. Rokker co., printers, Springfield, Ill,1903. 
 Notes:  Some of the plates are printed on both sides. 
 Call #:  F38B I28C v.1 
 Extent:  642 p. front., plates, ports., plans, map. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Clark's Expedition to the Illinois, 1778-1779 | Illinois -- History -- Sources | Northwest, Old -- History -- Sources | Mississippi River -- Description and travel
 
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18Title:  Four months in a sneak-box: a boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and along the Gulf of Mexico    
 Creator:  Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes), 1837-1902 
 Publication:  Lee & Shepard, C.T. Dillingham, Boston, New York,1879. 
 Call #:  F36 B622 1879 
 Extent:  xii, 322 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Boats and boating | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mexico, Gulf of
 
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19Title:  Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America: for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Publication:  Printed by J. Crukshank, Philadelphia,1792. 
 Notes:  First edition, London 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. For discussion as to authorship, etc. cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E. G. Bourne (American historical review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data," by J. T. Lee. Howes, 215. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T 1792 
 Extent:  xvi, vii, [9]-282 p. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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20Title:  Travels in Wisconsin    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
 Publication:  Printed by Harper & bros, New York,1838. 
 Notes:  First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsom. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T5 
 Extent:  xxxii, [33]-376 p. : front. (port.), plates, 2 fold. maps ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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