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41Title:  Seeing the middle West    
 Creator:  Faris, John Thomson, 1871- 
 Publication:  J.B. Lippincott company, Philadelphia, London,1923. 
 Call #:  F33J F228 
 Extent:  253, [1] p. col. front., plates. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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42Title:  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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43Title:  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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44Title:  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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45Title:  Travels in North America, 1822-1824    
 Alt. Title:  Erste Reise nach dem nèordlichen Amerika. English    
 Creator:  Paul WilhelmDuke of Wèurttemberg, 1797-1860 
 Publication:  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,[1973] 
 Notes:  Translation of Erste Reise nach dem nèordlichen Amerika in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824. Bibliography: p. 415-426. 
 Call #:  F25J P324 
 Extent:  xxxiv, 456 p. illus. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Paul Wilhelm, -- Duke of Wèurttemberg, -- 1797-1860 | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel
 
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46Title:  A summer in the wilderness: embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around lake Superior    
 Creator:  Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895 
 Publication:  D. Appleton and Co, New York, Philadelphia,1847. 
 Notes:  Afterwards reprinted in v. 1 of his Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces, Philadelphia, 1856. 
 Call #:  F33J L291 
 Extent:  208 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Superior, Lake -- Description | Michigan -- Description and travel
 
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47Title:  The journals of Jonathan Carver and related documents, 1766-1770    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Parker, John, 1923-
 Goddard, James Stanley, d. 1795
 Publication:  Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul,1976. 
 Notes:  "The manuscript journals are Additional Manuscripts 8949 and 8950 in the British Museum." Includes Journal of a voyage, 1766-67 by J. S. Goddard, and Carver's Dakota dictionary. Includes index. "A bibliography of Jonathan Carver's Travels": p. 222-231. 
 Call #:  F42J C331J 
 Extent:  x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Carver, Jonathan, -- 1710-1780 | Goddard, James Stanley, -- d. 1795 | Dakota language -- Dictionaries | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Northwestern States -- Description and travel
 
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48Title:  The journals of Joseph N. Nicollet: a scientist on the Mississippi headwaters: with notes on Indian life, 1836-37    
 Creator:  Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843 
 Publication:  Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul,[1970] 
 Notes:  Includes a translation of selected manuscripts (on deposit at the Library of Congress) dealing with the author's first visit to what is now Minnesota. Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  F43DC N586J 
 Extent:  xviii, 288 p. illus., facsims., maps. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ojibwa Indians | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- History -- To 1858
 
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49Title:  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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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:  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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52Title:  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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53Title:  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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54Title:  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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55Title:  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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56Title:  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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57Title:  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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58Title:  Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population    
 Creator:  Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 
 Publication:  Collins and Hannay, New-York,1825. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  F25J S372t Vault 
 Extent:  iv, 459 p. plates, maps (1 fold.) 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel
 
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59Title:  The Americans as they are: described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864 
 Publication:  Hurst, Chance and Co, London,1828. 
 Notes:  English version, abridged, of the author's "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika", Stuttgart, 1827, published under the pseudonym C. Sidons. 
 Call #:  F25J S438 
 Extent:  vi, 218 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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60Title:  Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of Missouri: also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, & 1803. With a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious ceremonies of the people of those countries    
 Creator:  Perrin du Lac, (Franðcois Marie)M, 1766-1824 
 Publication:  Printed for Richard Phillips, London,1807. 
 Call #:  Pam. P564 
 Extent:  106, [2] p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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