GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ON THE WESTERN COUNTRY: DESIGNED FOR EMIGRANTS AND SETTLERS: BEING THE RESULT OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCHES AND REMARKS....
Dana, Edmund:
Cincinnati. 1819. 312pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Rubbed. Contemporary ink signature on titlepage, quite heavily foxed. Good. Dana collected the material herein, although in the introduction he gives credit to Reuben Kidder for preparing it for the press. The major portion of the book deals with the area east of the Mississippi, from Alabama to the Northwest Territory; however, there are chapters relating to Louisiana, Texas (then part of New Spain), Arkansas, and Missouri, and "Sketches of the Country Watered by the Columbia and its Tributary Streams." The final section of the book is a mileage table of public roads from Eastport, Maine to the mouth of the Columbia, and from Quebec to New Orleans via the Mississippi. An addition to Wagner-Camp-Becker. WAGNER-CAMP-BECKER 15a. BUCK 136. STREETER SALE 840. GRAFF 997. CLARK II:15. HOWES D47. SABIN 18408. SERVIES 976.
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