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1Title:  First explorations of Kentucky: Doctor Thomas Walker's journal of an exploration of Kentucky in 1750, being the first record of a white man's visit to the interior of that territory, now first published entire, with notes and biographical sketch; also Colonel Christopher Gist's journal of a tour through Ohio and Kentucky in 1751, with notes and sketch    
 Creator:  Johnston, J. Stoddard (Josiah Stoddard), 1833-1913 
 Publication:  J. P. Morton and company, Louisville, Ky,1898. 
 Call #:  F31B F489F no.13 
 Extent:  xix, 222 p. front.(port.) pl., map. 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  Guide des âemigrans francais dans les âetats de Kentucky et d'Indiana: ou Renseignemens fidáeles sur les âetats-Unis de l'Amâerique Septentrionale en gâenâeral    
 Publication:  A. Bertrand, Paris,1835. 
 Notes:  The truth of the statements in the pamphlet is certified to by 16 citizens of Kentucky, whose names appear on p. 46. Following is a statement in English and French signed by John Joyes, Mayor of Louisville. 
 Call #:  Pam. G730 
 Extent:  1 p. l., 55 p. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- Description and travel | Indiana -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  Journal of an exploration in the spring of the year 1750    
 Creator:  Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794 
 Rives, William Cabell, 1825-1889
 Publication:  Little, Brown, and company, Boston,1888. 
 Notes:  Account of a journey through portions of the present states of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. Extends from March 16 to July 13, with a gap between April 10 and April 20. 
 Call #:  F36J W185 
 Extent:  69 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- Description and travel | Tennessee -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel
 
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4Title:  The mountain people of Kentucky: An account of present conditions with the attitude of the people toward improvement    
 Creator:  Haney, William Henry, 1882- 
 Publication:  Roessler bros, Cincinnati, O,1906. 
 Call #:  F31C H237 
 Extent:  196 p. front., plates, ports., map. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- Description and travel | Kentucky -- Social life and customs | Ohio imprints 1906
 
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5Title:  Country estates of the Blue Grass    
 Creator:  Knight, Thomas Arthur, 1876- 
 Greene Nancy Lewis.
 Publication:  The Britton Printing Co.], Cleveland, O,c1904. 
 Call #:  F31J K71 Oversize 
 Extent:  200 p. illus. 27 x 36 cm. 
 Subjects:  Country life -- Kentucky | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Cleveland imprints 1904
 
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6Title:  Letters from the West: comprising a tour through the western country and a residence of two summers in the states of Ohio and Kentucky ;originally written in letters to a brother    
 Creator:  Ogden, George W. 
 Publication:  Melcher & Rogers, New-Bedford [Mass.],1823. 
 Call #:  F34J O31 Vault 
 Extent:  126 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States | Ohio -- Description and travel | Kentucky -- Description and travel
 
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7Title:  Tours into Kentucky and the Northwest Territory: three journals of Rev. James Smith of Powhatan County, Va    
 Creator:  Smith, James, 1757-1800 
 Publication:  F.J. Heer, S.l.],1907. 
 Notes:  "Reprinted from July, 1907, quarterly of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications." Title from cover: Rev. James Smith's tours in to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory. Subtitle taken from label on t.p. Includes sketch of Rev. James Smith by Josiah Morrow. 
 Call #:  Pam. S1274 
 Extent:  p. 348-400 ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- Description and travel | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1907
 
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8Title:  My world    
 Creator:  Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984 
 Publication:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington,c1975. 
 Call #:  F31C K37 v.25 
 Extent:  95 p. : map (on lining paper) ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Stuart, Jesse, -- 1906-1984 -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Kentucky -- Biography
 
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9Title:  Historical sketches of Kentucky: embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions : with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc. : illustrated by forty engravings    
 Creator:  Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 
 Publication:  L. Collins, J.A. & U.P. James, Maysville, Ky, Cincinnati,1847. 
 Notes:  Includes indexes. 
 Call #:  F31D C712H 
 Extent:  560 p., [13] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., facsim., map, ports. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- History | Kentucky -- Biography | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1847
 
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10Title:  Historical sketches of Kentucky: embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc    
 Creator:  Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 
 Publication:  Lewis Collins, J.A. & U.P. James, Maysville, Ky, Cincinnati,1848. 
 Notes:  Illustrated by forty engravings. 
 Call #:  F31D C712H 1848 
 Extent:  560 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., fold. map ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kentucky -- History | Kentucky -- Biography | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1848
 
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11Title:  Pioneer and personal reminiscences    
 Creator:  Crary, Christopher G., b. 1806 
 Publication:  Marshall Print. Co, Marshalltown, Iowa,1893. 
 Notes:  Authorized facsimile printed by microfilm xerography. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1980. 
 Call #:  F34X L192C 
 Extent:  105 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Lake County | Kirtland (Ohio) | Lake County (Ohio) | Kentucky -- Description and travel
 
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12Title:  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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13Title:  Pioneer roads and experiences of travelers    
 Creator:  Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933 
 Publication:  A.H. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio,1904. 
 Notes:  Chapters 2 and 4 of v. 1 are extracts from F. Baily's Journal of a tour, and J. Hall's Legend of the West. Chapters 2, 5, and 6 of v. 2 are extracts from the Journal of Thomas Wallcut in 1790, T. Bigelow's Journal of a tour to Niagara Falls, 1805, and F. W. Halsey's The old New York frontier. Chapter 7 contains extracts from C. Dickens' American notes, and C. A. Murray's Travels in North America. Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  E159 H912 v.11 -12 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill., maps (some fold.) ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Roads -- Ohio River Valley | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Cleveland imprints 1904
 
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14Title:  Westward into Kentucky: the narrative of Daniel Trabue    
 Creator:  Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840 
 Young, Chester Raymond, 1920-
 Publication:  University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky,c1981. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. [200]-208. 
 Call #:  F31J T758 
 Extent:  vi, 218 p. ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Trabue, Daniel, -- 1760-1840 | Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography | Pioneers -- Virginia -- Biography | Kentucky -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Kentucky -- Biography | Virginia -- Biography
 
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15Title:  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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16Title:  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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