TY - BOOK AU - Nuttall,Thomas AU - Thwaites,Reuben Gold TI - A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory T2 - Early western travels, 1748-1846, v. 13 AV - F396 PY - 2026/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Mississippi River -- Description and travel KW - Ohio River -- Description and travel KW - Southwest, Old -- Description and travel KW - Arkansas -- Description and travel KW - Arkansas River -- Description and travel KW - Indians of North America -- Southwest, Old KW - Oklahoma -- Description and travel N1 - Release date is 2026-02-18; 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.); Originally published; Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905 N2 - "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. 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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77978 ER -