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• Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
• Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel -- 1981-

• Letters From America, Containing Observations on the Climate and Agriculture of the Western States, the Manners of the People, the Prospects of Emigrants, &c. &c. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. and C. Tait, 1822), by James Flint (page images in Germany)
• 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
• A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins (PDF at ohiomemory.org)
• Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston, by the Upper Carolinas (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, for B. Crosby and Co., and J. F. Hughes 1805), by François André Michaux (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
  • Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
  • Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
• 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
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • page images in Germany
  • 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
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  • page images at MOA

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• Some Elements of Indiana's Population: or, Roads West and Their Early Travelers (Indianapolis: E. J. Hecker, 1908), by William E. Henry (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley: An Introductory Archeological Study (Annals of Carnegie Museum, anthropological series, #2; 1955), by William J. Mayer-Oakes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Primitive Man in Ohio (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Warren K. Moorehead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Fort Ancient: The Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio (Teddington, Middlesex: Miss Millard, 1890), by Warren K. Moorehead (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley: An Introductory Archeological Study (Annals of Carnegie Museum, anthropological series, #2; 1955), by William J. Mayer-Oakes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mike Fink: A Legend of the Ohio (revised edition; Cincinnati: J. A. and U. P. James, 1853), by Emerson Bennett
  • multiple formats at Google
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• Dark Laughter (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• 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)
• The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Volume One: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
  • Volume Two: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • Volume Three: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807
• 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)
• 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

• 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

• View of the Title to Indiana: A Tract of Country on the River Ohio (ca.1775), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Documents Relating to the French Settlements on The Wabash (from Indiana Historical Society Publications series; Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to Their Respective Countries (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1781), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Chronicles of Border Warfare: or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in That Section of the State; With Reflections, Anecdotes, &c. (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Cincinnati: R. Clarke Co., 1895), by Alexander Scott Withers, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites, contrib. by Lyman Copeland Draper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• 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
  • Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
  • Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org

• Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley, by John James Piatt (page images at MOA)

• Story of the Great Flood and Cyclone Disasters: America's Greatest Calamity: A Complete and Authentic Account of the Awful Flood of 1913 in the Rich and Fertile Valleys of Ohio and Indiana, by Thomas Herbert Russell (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (c1913), by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Boy Pioneer: or, Strange Stories of the Great Valley (New York: Harper, c1917), by Abbie Johnston Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58 and '59 (Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Documents Relating to the French Settlements on The Wabash (from Indiana Historical Society Publications series; Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea: Twenty Four Sketches (2 volumes; Ventor: J. Lavars, 1857), by Lady Alicia Blackwood
  • Scutari and the Bosphorus volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Crimea volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by Richard Francis Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• In the Abruzzi (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the Abruzzi (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Adirondack: or, Life in the Woods, by J. T. Headley (page images at MOA)
• Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
• Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket, by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)

• The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863, With a Visit to Montenegro (London: R. Bentley, 1864), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (page images at Google)

• Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (from the second edition; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Alexander Burnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia and the Abyssines, With All the Adjacent Islands, Either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBP TCP)
• My Journey From Rhodesia to Egypt, Including an Ascent of Ruwenzori and a Short Account of the Route From Cape Town to Broken Hill and Lado to Alexandria (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1911), by Theo Kassner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Round the Black Man's Garden (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by Zélie Colvile (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Woman's Winter in Africa: A 26,000 Mile Journey (London: S. Paul and Co., c1913), by Charlotte Cameron
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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