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A New Guide for Emigrants to the West — John Mason Peck

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

John Mason Peck

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 272 pages

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West is an 1836 travel and settlement guide by John Mason Peck, describing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arkansas. It covers the Mississippi Valley, climate, public lands and frontier life, offering a historical view of westward migration in nineteenth-century America.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. A NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS TO THE WEST,
  2. CONTAINING SKETCHES OF
  3. OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, MICHIGAN, WITH THE TERRITORIES OF WISCONSIN AND ARKANSAS, AND THE ADJACENT PARTS.
  4. BOSTON: GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN.
  5. 1836.
  6. INDEX.
  7. INTRODUCTION.
  8. CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
  9. CHAPTER II. GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
  10. CHAPTER III. CLIMATE.
  11. CHAPTER IV. CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND PURSUITS OF THE PEOPLE.
  12. CHAPTER V. PUBLIC LANDS.
  13. CHAPTER VI. ABORIGINES.
  14. CHAPTER VII. WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
  15. CHAPTER VIII. MICHIGAN.
  16. CHAPTER XI. ILLINOIS.
  17. CHAPTER XII. MISSOURI.
  18. CHAPTER XIII. ARKANSAS, AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS.
  19. CHAPTER XIV. LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FOR THE WEST.
  20. CHAPTER XV.
  21. ERRATA.
  22. GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,
  23. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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