Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
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The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and His Companions (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1875), by John S. C. Abbott (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
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Filed under: Mississippi River Valley- The Mississippi Valley, by J. W. Foster (page images at MOA)
- The States and Territories of the Great West (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan; Buffalo: E. F. Beadle, 1856), by Jacob Ferris
- Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide, by Daniel S. Curtiss (page images at MOA)
- Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
- Proceedings of the Congressional Convention, Held in the City of St. Louis, on 13th, 14th and 15th days of May, 1873 (page images at MOA)
- Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Georges-Henri-Victor Collot
- The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot: Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers, Representing Their Channels, Islands, Ripples, Rapids, Shoals, Bars, Rocks, &c. Accompanied With Directions for the Use of Navigators; To Which is Added, A Geography of the States and Territories, West and South of the Allegheny Mountains (Pittsburgh: R. Patterson and Lambdin, 1820), by J. C. Gilleland
- Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826), by Timothy Flint (page images in Germany)
- A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
- Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 (second edition; London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819), by John Bradbury, contrib. by Ramsay Crooks
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien, Thence to Washington City, in 1829 (Columbus, OH: Isaac N. Whiting, 1831), by Caleb Atwater (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (reprint based on the 1774 edition, with added introduction, captions, and index; New Orleans: Pelican Press, ca. 1947), by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grand Excursion to New Orleans, Reed Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Stationed at Dayton, Ohio, on Board the Steamer Thomas Sherlock (Dayton, OH: Journal Steam Job Printing Establishment, 1875), by Knights Templar Reed Commandery No. 6 (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lye on Both Sides of the River Mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763), by Le Page du Pratz
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (new edition; London: Printed for T. Becket, 1774), by Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane (facsimile reproduction of the 1722 edition, with new introductions and index; Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976), by Daniel Coxe, contrib. by William S. Coker, Polly Coker, and Samuel Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (London: Printed for B. Cowse, 1722), by Daniel Coxe
- A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane; as Also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Mississippi, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (American edition; St. Louis: Churchill and Harris, 1840), by Daniel Coxe
- Journal of a Voyage to North-America (1761), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
- Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and Travels Through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico (1763), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Collection of Voyages and Travels, in Three Parts (London: O. Payne, 1741), by Thomas James, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean Pointis, and Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
- Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)
- The Bent Twig, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text)
- Dark Laughter (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lion of Farside, by John Dalmas (HTML at Baen Ebooks)
- Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
- Kingsblood Royal (1947), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Folded Leaf (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1945), by William Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Midlander (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Miss Lulu Bett (novel), by Zona Gale (Gutenberg text)
- The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska (New York: J. H. Colton and Co., 1855), by J. H. Colton (page images at MOA)
- The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide, With a Compendious Gazetteer of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and the Territories of Wisconsin, and Iowa (New York: J.H. Colton, 1840), by J. H. Colton and J. Calvin Smith
- The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Winning of the West (4 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1889-1898), by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The French in the Heart of America, by John H. Finley (Gutenberg text)
- History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Georges-Henri-Victor Collot
- Western Characters: or, Types of Border Life in the Western States (New York: Redfield, 1853), by John Ludlum McConnel, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley
- The Mission to The Ouabache (from Indiana Historical Society Publications series; Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1902), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)
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