A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory (Registro nro. 118698)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | F396 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nuttall, Thomas, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1786-1859 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Early western travels, 1748-1846, v. 13 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-02-18 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Carol Brown, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory" by Thomas Nuttall is a travel journal and natural history account written in the early 19th century. It follows an 1818–1820 expedition from Pennsylvania to the Arkansas country, combining route-finding and river travel with close observations of geology, botany, Indigenous cultures, and frontier life along the Ohio and Mississippi. Readers can expect detailed notes on landscapes, fossils, plants, ancient earthworks, and the social conditions of early American settlements.<br/><br/>The opening of the book presents an editor’s preface sketching Nuttall’s scientific career and outlining his 1818–1820 itinerary, then shifts to the author’s own narrative. He departs Philadelphia, crosses Pennsylvania’s mountain chains on foot, and records layered geological formations, coal signs, and notable plants before reaching smoky, industrious Pittsburgh. Launching a skiff down the Ohio, he endures cold, contrary winds, and rough lodgings, while noting towns (Steubenville, Wheeling, Marietta), ancient mounds (especially the Great Mound at Grave Creek), and the habits and hardships of emigrants. He describes broader bottoms, fossil-rich limestones, and persistent upriver winds en route to Louisville and the Falls, with remarks on canals, speculation, and river hazards. Resuming in a flatboat from Shippingsport, he drifts swiftly past Yellow Banks, Evansville, Diamond Island, and Shawneetown, praises the river’s grandeur amid largely untouched forests, and passes Fort Massac to the Ohio’s mouth—only to be stalled by Mississippi ice beside towering cane brakes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Mississippi River -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Ohio River -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Southwest, Old -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Arkansas -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Arkansas River -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Indians of North America -- Southwest, Old |
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| Uncontrolled term | Oklahoma -- Description and travel |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1853-1913 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Early western travels, 1748-1846, v. 13 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77978">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77978</a> |
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