| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | View of the valley of the Mississippi: or, the emigrant's and traveller's guide to the West ; containing a general description of that entire country ; and also, notices of the soil, productions, rivers, and other channels of intercourse and trade ; and likewise of the cities and towns, progress of education, &c. of each state and territory
| | | | Creator: | Baird, Robert, 1798-1863 | | | | Publication: | H.S. Tanner, Philadelphia,1832. | | | | Notes: | Binder's title: Emigrant's and traveller's guide through the valley of the Mississippi. Introduction, p. [iii]-ix, dated and signed: Philadelphia, September 1832. R. B. Though today generally attributed to Robert Baird, this work has also been attributed to Richard, or Robert Bache. "A list of maps, charts, and geographical works, recently published and for sale by H.S. Tanner, geographer & map publisher ...": 10 p. at end. | | | | Call #: | F25J B163V | | | | Extent: | xii, 341 p., [15] p. of plates : maps (some fold., some col.) ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Recollections of the last ten years in the valley of the Mississippi
| | | | Creator: | Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840 | | | | | Flint, James, 1779-1855 | | | | | Brooks, George R., 1929- | | | | Publication: | Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale,[1968] | | | | Notes: | This edition follows the 1826 original, being a series of letters to the Rev. James Flint. Bibliography: p. [331]-337. | | | | Call #: | F25J F625 1968 | | | | Extent: | xxiv, 343 p. illus., map (on lining papers) 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Highways and byways of the Mississippi Valley
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Clifton, 1865- | | | | | Johnson, Clifton, 1865- | | | | Publication: | The Macmillan company; [etc., etc.], New York,1906 [1913] | | | | Notes: | Partly reprinted from various periodicals. | | | | Call #: | F25J J66 1913 | | | | Extent: | xiii, 250, 250a-250b, 251-287 p. incl. front. plates. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Article | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | A Northern sojourner's remembrances of the Mississippi
| | | | Parent: | Journal of Mississippi history. [Jackson, Miss., Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History in cooperation with the Mississippi Historical Society] v. 12, no. 3, July 1950, p. 127-152
| | | | Creator: | Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878 | | | | Publication: | | | | | Call #: | F24D J68 v.12, no.3 | | | | Extent: | | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Riparian lands of the Mississippi River, past--present--prospective: being a collection of essays and discussions of problems affecting the improvement of navigation of the Mississippi River, bank protection, harbor improvement, its levee system and the permanent deepening of the channel at its mouth, together with some legal aspects and economic features, by various contributors; also a brief review of the attractions of, and the possibilities of development in, the largest alluvial basin in the world
| | | | Creator: | Tompkins, Frank H. | | | | Publication: | A. L. Swift & co.], Chicago,c1901. | | | | Notes: | A folded map takes the place of p. 217-224. | | | | Call #: | F25X T66 | | | | Extent: | 216, 225-640 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports., maps. 31 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | The western gazetteer; or emigrant's directory: containing a geographical description of the western states and territories, viz. the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee [!] and Mississippi: and the territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western. With an Appendix, containing sketches of some of the western counties of New-York, Pennsylvania and Virginia; a description of the great northern lakes; Indian annuities, and directions to emigrants
| | | | Creator: | Brown, Samuel R., 1775-1817 | | | | Publication: | Printed by H.C. Southwick, Auburn, N.Y,1817. | | | | Call #: | F25J B879W1 | | | | Extent: | vi, [7]-360 p. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 12 | Title: | An epoch in Missouri history: being a facsimile of a brochure printed in Lexington, Kentucky in the year 1796 with a twentieth century view of it
| | | | Creator: | Delassus Deluziáeres, Pierre Charles de Hault, 1738-1806. | | | | | Dugan, Frances Lathrop Smith, 1903- | | | | | Bull, Jacqueline, 1911-1987 | | | | Publication: | s.n.], Lexington, Ky,1958. | | | | Notes: | Cover title. Caption title of original reads: An official account of the situation, soil, produce, &c of that part of Louisiana, which lies between the mouth of the Missouri and New Madrid, or L'anse a la Grais, and on the west side of the Mississippi. Together with an abstract of the Spanish government, &c. The original is signed on p. 7: Delassus Deluzieres. "Sources consulted": [6] (2d group). | | | | Call #: | F26J D339E | | | | Extent: | 8 p., [6] p. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 13 | Title: | Journal of a tour in unsettled parts of North America in 1796 & 1797
| | | | Creator: | Baily, Francis, 1774-1844 | | | | | Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William)Sir, 1792-1871 | | | | | De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871 | | | | Publication: | Baily Bros, London,1856. | | | | Notes: | First edition. Howes, U. S.iana, B40. Edited by A. De Morgan. "Memoir of Francis Baily, by Sir John Hershel": p. 1-74. "List of Mr. Francis Baily's Publications": p. 61-69. | | | | Call #: | E164 B161 | | | | Extent: | xii, 439 p. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | The valley of the Mississippi
| | | | Creator: | Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 | | | | | Thomas, Lewis Foulk, 1808-1868 | | | | Publication: | Pub. by the artist, printed by Chambers and Knapp, St. Louis, Mo,1841. | | | | Notes: | Engr. t.-p., with vignette. "Published monthly in numbers each number containing four views." | | | | Call #: | F25J W668 1841 | | | | Extent: | vi, [7]-145 p. plates (1 fold.) 28 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 18 | Title: | The western gazetteer; or, emigrant's directory: containing a geographical description of the western states and territories, viz. the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi: and the territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western
| | | | Creator: | Brown, Samuel R., 1775-1817 | | | | Publication: | Printed by H. C. Southwick, Auburn, N.Y,1817. | | | | Notes: | Sabin 8558. | | | | Call #: | F25J B879W | | | | Extent: | 352 p. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 20 | Title: | Mâemoires historiques sur la Louisiane: contenant ce qui y est arrivâe de plus mâemorable depuis l'annâee 1687. jusqu'áa prâesent; avec l'âetablissement de la colonie franøcoise dans cette province de l'Amâerique Septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes; le climat, la natur & les productions de ce pays; l'origine & la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent; leurs moeurs & leurs coutumes, &c
| | | | Creator: | Dumont de Montignylieutenant | | | | | Le Mascrier, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1760 | | | | Publication: | C. J. B. Bauche, Paris,1753. | | | | Notes: | Edited by J.B.Le Mascrier. cf. Quâerard, Les supercheries littâeraires dâevoilâees, 1853, t. 5. | | | | Call #: | F26DA D893 | | | | Extent: | 2 v. illus. maps. 20cm. | | | | Subjects: | Louisiana -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
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