Early Western Travels, 1748-1846

A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and a number of them cover travel in the far west. Reprints in the collection that may be of interest are: -Journals of Conrad Weiser, George Croghan, Christian Frederick Post and Thomas Morris. -Francois Andre Michaux’s Travels west of the Alleghany Mountains, 1802. -Cuming’s Tour to the Western Country 1807-1809. -Bradbury’s Travels in the Interior of America, 1809-1811. -Evan’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles, 1818. -Hulme’s Journal of a Tour in the Western Countries of America, 1818-1819. -Wood’s Two years’ Residence in the English Prairie, 1820-1822. -Faux’s Memorable Days in America, 1819-1820. -Welby’s Visit to North America, 1819-1820. -Bullock’s Journey from New Orleans to New York, 1827.