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1Title:  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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2Title:  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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3Title:  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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4Title:  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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5Title:  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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6Title:  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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7Title:  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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8Title:  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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9Title:  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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10Title:  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 for the publisher, New York,1811. 
 Call #:  F25J A824T4 
 Extent:  ix, [11]-366 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848 | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel | Allegheny River | Monongahela River | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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