Northwest, Old -- Description and travel
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods (2 volumes; Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, contrib. by Stephen H. Long, Thomas Say, and James Edward Colhoun- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- Summer Rambles in the West (New York: J. C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
- Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text)
- Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)
- Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820, Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, by Margaret Fuller (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- 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
- 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 (Cincinnati: F. A. Howe, 1865), by John Warner Barber and Henry Howe
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Northwest, Old- Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide, by Daniel S. Curtiss (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
- Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell. Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor (Minneapolis: Pub. for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The University of Minnesota Press, 1933), ed. by Charles M. Gates, contrib. by Peter Pond, John Macdonell, Archibald Norman McLeod, Hugh Faries, Thomas Connor, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pioneer Women of the West (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by E. F. Ellet
- Planting Corn Belt Culture: The Impress of the Upland Southerner and Yankee in the Old Northwest (Indiana Historical Society Publications v17; Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1953), by Richard Lyle Power (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634, With a Sketch of His Life (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co., 1881), by Consul Willshire Butterfield (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681: The Official Narrative, by Robert Cavelier La Salle, trans. by Melville Best Anderson (JavaScript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
- Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods (2 volumes; Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, contrib. by Stephen H. Long, Thomas Say, and James Edward Colhoun
- Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Hospital Zone (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1948), by Elizabeth Seifert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 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
- Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Dahkotah Land and Dahkotah Life, With the History of the Fur Traders of the Extreme Northwest During the French and British Dominions (Philadelphia; Chicago: J.B. Lippincott; S.C. Griggs, 1859), by Edward D. Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1919), by Frederic Austin Ogg (Gutenberg text)
- The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1920), by Frederic Austin Ogg (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794; Together With an Appendix (Philadelphia: Grigg and Elliot, 1832), by John A. McClung
- The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory (Staunton, VA: Press of the McClure Co., 1943), by John Walter Wayland (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Early History of Michigan, From the First Settlement to 1815 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Detroit: Kerr, Morley and Co., 1856), by E. M. Sheldon
- History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest (Oshkosh, WI: Allen and Hicks, 1880), by Richard J. Harney (page images at Wisconsin)
- 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 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 (Cincinnati: F. A. Howe, 1865), by John Warner Barber and Henry Howe
- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- The Treaty of Greenville: Being an Official Account of the Same, Together With the Expeditions of Gen. Arthur St. Clair and Gen. Anthony Wayne Against the Northwestern Indian Tribes, and an Historical Sketch of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River, Previous Thereto (Piqua, OH: Correspondent Press, 1894), by Frazer Ells Wilson (page images at Ohio Memory)
- Upper Mississippi: or, Historical Sketches of the Moundbuilders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West, From A. D. 1600 to the Present Time (Chicago: Clarke and Co.; New York: Oakley and Mason, 1867), by George Gale
- The John Askin Papers (2 volumes; Detroit: Detroit Library Commission, 1928-1931), by John Askin, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, by Margaret Fuller (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell. Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor (Minneapolis: Pub. for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The University of Minnesota Press, 1933), ed. by Charles M. Gates, contrib. by Peter Pond, John Macdonell, Archibald Norman McLeod, Hugh Faries, Thomas Connor, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, by Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at loc.gov)
- Letter Book of the Indian Agency at Fort Wayne, 1809-1815 (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v21; 1961), ed. by Gayle Thornbrough (page images at HathiTrust)
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