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• Northwest, Old -- Guidebooks
• Northwest, Old -- Guidebooks, 1849
• Northwest, Old -- History
• Northwest, Old -- History. from old catalog
• Northwest, Old -- Juvenile fiction
• Northwest, Old -- Maps
• Northwest, Old -- Politics and government
• Northwest, Old -- Religion
• Northwest, Old -- Social life and customs
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• African Americans -- Northwest, Old
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• Explorers -- Northwest, Old
• Forests and forestry -- Northwest, Old
• French -- Northwest, Old
• French Americans -- Northwest, Old
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Northwest, Old
• Fruit-culture -- Northwest, Old
• Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Travel -- Northwest, Old
• Fur trade -- Northwest, Old
• Fur traders -- Northwest, Old
• Furniture industry and trade -- Northwest, Old
• Great Britain -- Commerce -- Northwest, Old
• Indian traders -- Northwest, Old
• Indians -- Northwest, Old
• Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old
• Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Old
• Iron industry and trade -- Northwest, Old
• Law -- Northwest, Old
• Lindsey, Charles, 1820-1908 -- Travel -- Northwest, Old
• Loggers -- Northwest, Old
• Lumbering -- Northwest, Old
• Methodist Episcopal Church -- Northwest, Old
• Military roads -- Northwest, Old
• Mining law -- Northwest, Old
• Missions -- Northwest, Old
• Museums -- Northwest, Old
• Names, Geographical -- Northwest, Old
• Names, Indian -- Northwest, Old
• Natural history -- Northwest, Old
• New Englanders -- Northwest, Old
• Pageants -- Northwest, Old
• Prairies -- Northwest, Old
• Public lands -- Northwest, Old
• Railroads -- Northwest, Old
• Roads -- Northwest, Old
• School lands -- Northwest, Old
• Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- Northwest, Old
• Session laws -- Northwest, Old
• Slavery -- Northwest, Old
• Summer resorts -- Northwest, Old
• Tall tales -- Northwest, Old
• United States -- Northwest, Old
• Universalist Church in the U.S. -- Northwest, Old
• Universalist Church in the United States -- Northwest, Old
• Universalist Church of America -- Northwest, Old
• Universalist churches -- Northwest, Old
• Universities and colleges -- Northwest, Old
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• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 Wabash trade route in the development of the old Northwest (Johns Hopkins Press, 1903), by Elbert Jay Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the West: embracing a concise account of principal events which have occurred in the western states and territories, from the discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six. (W. S. Haven, printer, 1858), by James H. Perkins, James R. Albach, and John Mason Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's greatest subdivision : the Northwest Territory (Burch Printers, 1957), by Albert E. Chauncey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West, or, The garden of the world : its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future : also comprising a complete guide to emigrants, with a full description of the different routes westward (Wentworth, 1858), by C. W. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas and Nebraska ; their geography, history, resources ... comprising their local history, institutions, and laws ; giving a table of distances, and the most direct routes ... also, pointing out the best districts for agricultural, commercial, lumbering, and mining operations (Miller, Orton, and Mulligan ;, 1856), by Jacob Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the West : embracing a concise account of principal events which have occurred in the western states and territories, from the discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the year eighteen hundred and forty-five : compiled from the most authentic sources (James R. Albach, 1847), by James H. Perkins, James R. Albach, and J.A. & U.P. James (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the West: embracing a concise account of principal events, which have occured in the western states and territories, from the discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the year eighteen hundred and fifty. (Chambers & Knapp, 1852), by James H. Perkins and James R. Albach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winning of the West (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1900), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West (Wentworth and company, 1858), by C. W. Dana and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western portraiture, and emigrants' guide : a description of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa ; with remarks on Minnesota, and other territories (J.H. Colton, 1852), by Daniel S. Curtiss and Joseph P. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new guide for emigrants to the West : containing sketches of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, with the territory of Wisconsin and the adjacent parts (Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1837), by John Mason Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic towns of the western states (Putnam's sons, 1901), by Lyman P. Powell and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources. (H. H. Hill and Company, 1879), by H. W. Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and conditions of progress in the North-west. Being the annual discourse for 1850, before the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio; delivered April 8, the sixty-third anniversary of the first settlement of the state. (H.W. Derby & Co., 1850), by William D. Gallagher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new guide to the West : containing sketches of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Iowa (D. Anderson, 1848), by John Mason Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centennial hymn of the Northwest territory. (Springfield Printing Co., 1887), by N. N. McCullough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and conditions of progress in the North-west. (H. W. Derby & co., 1850), by William D. Gallagher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northwest in the nation; biennial address before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, January 24, 1893 (Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1893), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Garden of the world (Wentworth, Hewes & Co., 1859), by C. W. Dana, John C. Fremont, Sam Houston, and Thomas H. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great West (Wentworth and Co., 1857), by C. W. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the West : embracing a concise account of principal events which have occurred in the western states and territories, from the discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six (Haven, 1856), by James H. Perkins and John Mason Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Carvers Reisen durch die innern Gegenden von Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1766, 1767 und 1768 mit einer Landkarte : aus dem Englischen. (Bei Carl Ernst Bohn, 1780), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767 and 1768 (Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, H. Payne, in Pall- mall, and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1781), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ordinance of 1787, together with papers selected from authentic sources relating to the ordinance and the establishment of civil government, July 15, 1788, at "Marietta, on the Ohio," in the territory of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio : prepared for the national centennial celebration at Maretta, July 15th to 20th, 1888, under the authority of the Citizen's committee of one hundred, S.M. McMillen, chairman Historical committee, Geo. M. Woodbridge, chairman. ([publisher not identified], 1888), by Ohio. Marietta (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West, or The garden of the world; its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future. (Thayer & Eldridge, 1861), by C. W. Dana and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West, or the garden of the world : its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future (Wentworth and company, 1856), by C. W. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New Guide for Emigrants to the West, by John Mason Peck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, and Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Cautionary hints to Congress respecting the sale of the western lands, belonging to the United States. (Philadelphia: : William W. Woodward, printer, Franklin's head, green sign, no. 36, Chesnut-Street, south side., 1795), by St. George Tucker, James Madison, John Taylor, and James Wood (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Northwest territory celebration . ([Columbus, O., 1938), by Northwest Territory Celebration Commission of Ohio and Northwest Territory Celebration Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The aborigines of the Northwest : a glance into the remote past (Parkman Club publications, 1896), by Frank Taylor Terry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliography of the Old-Northwest 1783-1861, limited to books of travel, guide books, gazetteers, and general description (1900), by Ida Louise Jackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I. The West as a field for historical study (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1897), by Frederick Jackson Turner and Isaac Samuel Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer Women of the West (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by E. F. Ellet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard : Pa-pa-ma-ta-be, "The Swift Walker" (R.R. Donnelley, 1911), by Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard and Caroline Margaret McIlvaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer women of the West (H.T. Coates, 1890), by E. F. Ellet and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer women of the West (H. T. Coates, 1852), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer women of the west (Charles Scribner, 1856), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer women of the West (Porter & Coates, 1873), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Message of the acting governor : to the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. ([Democratic Free Press], 1834), by Stevens Thomson Mason, Lucius Lyon, Democratic Free Press, and Michigan. Legislative Council (1824-1835) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oration delivered by George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, April 7, 1888 : at the celebration of the centennial of the founding of the Northwest, at Marietta, Ohio. (Judd & Detweiler, 1888), by George Frisbie Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Baptist Ministers Aid Society, 1885-1942 ([publisher not identified], 1942), by Joseph W. Priest (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• New England in the Northwestern Territory : address before the New England Society of the Russell House, Detroit, Michigan, April 14th, 1898 ([The Society], 1898), by Rufus W. Clark and New England Society of Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)

• New England and the West. (A. W. Wilgus, 1843), by R. W. Haskins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harbor defences on Great Lakes and rivers. ([G.P.O.?], 1862), by Isaac N. Arnold and United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Defence of Great Lakes and Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • volume II: 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Letters from the West, or, A caution to emigrants (Readex Microprint, 1966), by John Stillman Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dakota land, or, The beauty of St. Paul : an original, illustrated, historic and romantic work, presenting ... graphic descriptions of the beautiful scenery and wonderful enchantment in Minnesota, to which is added ... a comprehensive guide to the great North-West (Hankins & Sons, 1868), by Col. Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers : with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842. (Lippincott, Grambo and co., 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary narrative of an exploratory expedition to the sources of the Mississippi River, in 1930: resumed and completed, by the discovery of its origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. (Lippincott, Grambo, & co., 1855), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wabash; or, Adventures of an English gentleman's family in the interior of America. (Hurst and Blackett, 1855), by J. Richard Beste, Henry Colburn, and Hurst & Blackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eastern and western states of America (Fisher, Son & Co., 1842), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer journey in the West (J.S. Taylor and Co., 1841), by Eliza R. Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yesterday, a chronicle of early life in the West (The author, 1921), by Charles Edward Weller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer on the lakes, in 1843. (C.C. Little and James Brown, 1844), by Margaret Fuller and Freeman & Bolles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer in the wilderness : embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around lake Superior (D. Appleton and Co., 1847), by Charles Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, in the year 1820. (Michigan State College Press, 1953), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Mentor Lee Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in the West. (Harper & brother, 1835), by Charles Fenno Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trip to the West and Texas : comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5 : interspersed with anecdotes, incidents and observations (Printed and published by White & Fisher, 1835), by A. A. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seeing the Middle West (Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] ; London [England] : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1923., 1923), by John T. Faris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on a journey in America : from the coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois (Ridgway and Sons, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great North-west and the great lake region of North America (Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), by Paul Fountain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prairie farming in America. With notes by the way on Canada and the United States. (D. Appleton and company, 1859), by James Caird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Thomas Dean. A voyage to Indiana in 1817. (C. E. Pauley & Co., 1918), by Thomas Dean, Randle C. Dean, and John C. Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States; extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes, to the sources of the Mississippi river. (E. & E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old Northwest Territory : its missions, forts and trading posts (Moore & Quale; Kalamazoo publishing co., 1875), by Charles R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in the far West. (R. Bentley, 1835), by Charles Fenno Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west. (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest (George Banta publishing company, 1930), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Louise Phelps Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Major Long's second expedition (H.C. Carey & I. Lea ..., 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, Joseph Lovell, James E. Colhoun, Lewis David von Schweinitz, Thomas Say, and Stephen H. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. performed in the year 1823, (Ross & Haines, 1959), by William Hypolitus Keating (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expedition to Lake Itasca ; the discovery of the source of the Mississippi (Michigan State University Press, 1958), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Philip P. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer's vacation, or, A trip to the West ... ([Munsell], 1872), by Charles Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geographical catechism of Pennsylvania, and the western states (J. Winebrenner, 1836), by I. Daniel Rupp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun : the "early day" in the North-west (Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1932), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. performed in the year 1823, (Ross & Haines, 1959), by William Hypolitus Keating and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer rambles in the West (J.C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west (Rand, McNally & company, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dakota land, or, The beauty of St. Paul : an original, illustrated, historic, and romantic work on Minnesota and the great North-West (Hankins & Son, 1869), by Col. Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in the West (New York : Harper & Brothers, no. 82 Cliff-Street, 1835., 1835), by Charles Fenno Hoffman and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer's vacation, or, A trip to the West. (Privately printed, 1872), by Charles Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dakota land; or, The beauty of St. Paul : an original, illustrated, historic and romantic work ... intewoven with graphic descriptions of the beautiful scenery and wonderful enchantment in Minnesota : to which is added "A round of pleasure" ... forming a comprehensive guide to the great North-west. (Henkins, 1868), by Col. Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River : Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, U.S.T.E. (Geo B. Whittaker, 1825), by Joseph Lovell, James Edward Colhoun, Lewis David von Schweinitz, Thomas Say, Stephen H. Long, and William Hypolitus Keating (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Thomas Dean. A voyage to Indiana in 1817. (J. C. Dean], 1918), by Thomas Dean and John Candee Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen im Nordwesten der Vereinigten Staaten (D. Appleton & Co., 1857), by J. G. Kohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois. (Printed by Severn & Co., for James Ridgway, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a journey in America from the coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois (Printed by Severn and Co. ... for J. Ridgway ..., 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the country on the northern route from Belleville, Illinois, to the city of New York, and back by the Ohio Valley; together with a glance at the Crystal palace. (Printed by J. A. Willis [and C. Johnson], 1854), by John Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• A traveler's impression of Indiana in 1851 (Public Library, 1954), by John Richard Digby Beste and Fort Wayne and Allen County Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colton's western states guidebook. (J.H. Colton & Co., 1855), by J. H. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Routes of the Missouri river, Illinois river, and northern lakes, with descriptions of towns, general features of the country, statistics, tables of distances, &c. &c. (U. P. James, 1855), by Uriah Pierson James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand, McNally & co.'s tourist guide to the Northwest ... (Rand, McNally & co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west (The Caxton club, 1901), by Juliette Augusta Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great central route book, for summer tourists, of 1873. ([Rand, McNally & Co., printers], 1873), by Illinois Central Railroad Company. Passenger Dept and W. H. Stennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. (D. Appleton & company:, 1847), by Charles Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning's lake and river guide (Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe über den Kampf und das Wiederaufleben der katholischen Kirche im fernen Westen der Vereinigten Staaten (F.S. Hübschmann, 1836), by Johann P. Mirer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geographical catechism of Pennsylvania, and the western states; designed as a guide and pocket companion, for travellers and emigrants, to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri; containing a geographical and early historical account of these several states, from their first settlement up to the present time. (J. Winebrenner, etc., etc., 1837), by I. Daniel Rupp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caird's slanders on Canada answered & refuted! (Printed by Lovell & Gibson ... and sold by all booksellers in Canada ..., 1859), by James Caird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prairie farming in America : with notes by the way on Canada and the United States. (Appleton, 1859), by James Caird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dakota land; or, The beauty of St. Paul : an original, illustrated, historic and romantic work, presenting a combination of marvelous dreams and wandering fancies, singular events and strange fatalities, all interwoven with graphic descriptions of the beautiful scenery and wonderful enchantment in Minnesota. To which is added "A round of pleasure", with interesting notes of travel, maps, etc., and forming a comprehensive guide to the great North-West. (Hankins & son, 1868), by Col. Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Pa-pa-ma-ta-be, "The swift walker" (R. R. Donnelley & sons company, 1911), by Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard and Caroline Margaret McIlvaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geographical sketches on the western country : designed for emigrants and settlers ; being the result of extensive researches and remarks ; to which is added, a summary of all the most interesting matters on the subject, including a particular description of all the unsold public lands, collected from a variety of authentic sources ; also, a list of the principal roads (Looker, Reynolds & Co. Printers, 1819), by Edmund P. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., &c. performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of Stephen H. Long, major U.S.T.E. (H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1824), by Stephen Harriman Long, William H. Keating, and James Edward Colhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. performed in the year 1823 by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of Stephen H. Long, U.S.T.E. (Printed for G.B. Whittaker, 1825), by Stephen Harriman Long, William H. Keating, and James Edward Colhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A topographical description of the western territory of North America containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners and customs : with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned : to which are added ... plan of association of the North American Land Company, &c. (Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1797), by G. Imlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A 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 partitionned, and an accurate statement of the various tribes of Indians that inhabit the frontier country : to which is annexed a delineation of the laws and government of the state of Kentucky, tending to shew the probable rise and grandeur of the American empire : in a series of letters to a friend in England (Printed for William Jones ..., 1793), by G. Imlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A topographical description of the western territory of North America containing a succint account of its climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners and customs ... with an accurate statement of the various tribes of Indians that inhabit the frontier country, together with a delineation of the laws and government of the state of Kentucky ... in a series of letters to a friend in England (Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1792), by G. Imlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A topographical description of the western territory of North America containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, customs ... to which are added, the discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky, and an essay towards the topography and natural history of that important country by John Filson, to which is added, I. The adventures of Col. Daniel Boone ... II. The minutes of the Piankashaw council ... III. An account of the Indian nations inhabiting within the limits of the thirteen United States ... (Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1793), by G. Imlay and John Filson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers with brief notices of passing events, facts and opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842 (Lippincott, Grambo, 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage dans les parties intérieures de l'Amérique septentrionale, pendant les années 1766, 1767 & 1768 (Chez Pissot, libraire ..., 1784), by Jonathan Carver and Jean Étienne Montucla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers : with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842 (Lippincott, Grambo, 1900), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west. (Caxton Club, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a journey in America from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois (Printed by Severn & Co. for James Ridgway, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck, Samuel John Neele, and James Neele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. : performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of Stephen H. Long, major, U.S.T.E. (Printed for G.B. Whittaker, 1825), by William Hypolitus Keating and Stephen H. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois: with proposals for the establishment of a colony of English; accompanied by a map, illustrating the route. (Reprinted for Thomas Larkin, 1818), by Morris Birkbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dakota land; or, The beauty of St. Paul. An original, illustrated, historic and romantic work on Minnesota, and the great North-west. (Hankins & Son, 1868), by Colonel Hankins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, & c., performed in the year 1823 (G.B. Whittaker, 1825), by William Hypolitus Keating (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers (AMS Press, 1978), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of George Croghan's letters and journals relating to tours into the western country--November 16, 1750-November, 1765 ... (1904), by George Croghan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prairies of the western states: their advantages and their drawbacks. (Leader & Patriot Steam-Press, 1860), by Charles Lindsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tourist's guide to the Mississippi River: giving all the railroad and steamboat routes diverging from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Dubuque, toward St. Paul, and the falls of St. Anthony; also, railroad and steamboat routes from Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Superior; together with an account of cities and villages, and objects of interest, on the route and in the upper valley of the Mississippi... (American news company, 1866), by John Disturnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois. (Printed by Severn & Co., 1, Skinner Street, Bishopsgate: for James Ridgway, Piccadilly; and to be had of all other booksellers., 1818), by Morris Birkbeck and Robert T. Aitchison Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour through the western country, A.D. 1818 & 1819 (Printed by Samuel Green, for the author, 1819), by Benjamin Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journal, of a tour from Lake-George to the North-West territory, made in the fall of the year 1800, and the winter and spring of 1801; with a description of the soil, productions, rivers, natural curiosity, &c. of that Eden of America. To which is added, a concise account of the present state of Kentucky. (Printed for the Author, at the request of many of his friends, 1801), by Zophar Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer journey in the west, by Eliza R. Steele (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Summer in the Wilderness: embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, by Margaret Fuller (Gutenberg ebook)

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