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Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume XXII

Early Western Travels 1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.

Volume XXII

PART I OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED'S, TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834

Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906

Copyright 1906, by The Arthur H. Clark Company

All Rights Reserved

The Lakeside Press R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII

PREFACE TO VOLUMES XXII-XXIV. _The Editor_ 9

TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA. [Part I,
being chapters i-xv of the London edition, 1843.]
_Maximilian, Prince of Wied._ Translated from the
German by _Hannibal Evans Lloyd_

Author's Preface 25

Translator's Preface 31

Text:

CHAPTER I--Voyage to Boston, Stay in
that City, and Journey to New York,
from May 17th to July 9th, 1832 37

CHAPTER II--Stay in New York, Philadelphia,
and Bordentown, from the 9th
to the 16th of July 57

CHAPTER III--Residence at Freiburg and
Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, from July
30th to August 23rd 72

CHAPTER IV--Journey to the Pokono,
and through the Blue Mountains to
Mauch Chunk, in the Coal District,
from the 23rd to the 30th of August 87

CHAPTER V--Description of Mauch Chunk
and its Coal Mines--Journey through
the Lehigh Valley to Bethlehem, and
last Residence in that Town, from
August 31st to September 16th 119

CHAPTER VI--Journey from Bethlehem
to Pittsburg, over the Alleghanys, from
September 17th to October 7th 128

CHAPTER VII--Journey from Pittsburg to
New Harmony, on the Wabash, from
the 8th to the 19th of October 144

CHAPTER VIII--Description of the Country
about New Harmony, in Indiana,
and Winter Residence there from
October 19th, 1832, to March 16th, 1833 163

CHAPTER IX--Journey from New Harmony
to St. Louis on the Mississippi,
and our Stay there, from March 16th
to April 9th 198

CHAPTER X--Journey from St. Louis to
the Cantonment of Leavenworth, or
to the Borders of the Settlement, from
the 10th to the 22nd of April 237

CHAPTER XI--Journey from the Cantonment
of Leavenworth to the Punca Indians,
from April 22nd to May 12th 255

CHAPTER XII--Voyage from L'Eau qui
Court to Fort Pierre, on the Teton
River (the Little Missouri), and Stay
there, from May 13th to June 4th 291

CHAPTER XIII--Voyage from Fort Pierre,
on the Teton River, to Fort
Clarke, near the Villages of the Mandans,
from the 5th to the 19th of June 330

CHAPTER XIV--Voyage from Fort Clarke
to Fort Union, near the Mouth of the
Yellow Stone River, from the 19th to
the 24th of June 356