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100 1 _aMichaux, André,
_d1746-1802
245 1 0 _aAndré Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aEarly western travels, 1748-1846, v. 3
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-26
508 _aCarol 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 _a"André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's…" by André Michaux and François André Michaux is a collection of travel journals written in the late 18th and early 19th century. The work chronicles scientific and exploratory journeys across the trans-Appalachian West, weaving meticulous botanical observations with firsthand notes on routes, rivers, settlements, and the realities of frontier travel, occasionally touching on contemporary political aims. The opening of the volume presents a transcriber’s note and an editor’s preface that sketches the lives of the Michauxs, explains the series’ purpose, and frames the journals’ significance for Western settlement, botany, and travel conditions. It then launches into André Michaux’s 1793 diary, following him from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and down the Ohio toward Kentucky, where he records dense plant lists alongside stops at Gallipolis, Limestone, Washington, Lexington, Danville, and Louisville. In Kentucky he meets figures such as Benjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, and George Rogers Clark while discreetly advancing a French diplomatic errand, before returning east via the Wilderness Road and the Valley of Virginia. Subsequent early entries cover his 1795 push from the Carolinas into East Tennessee, the hazardous Cumberland crossing to Nashville, and back through Kentucky to Louisville and the salt licks. He then heads toward Vincennes and the Illinois country—Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, Cahokia, and Fort Massac—intermixing candid notes on French villages, game, saltworks, and river travel with exhaustive botanical catalogues, concluding this opening portion amid his late-1795 Tennessee and Cumberland river observations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cCleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904
653 _aUnited States -- Description and travel
653 _aSouthern States -- Description and travel
653 _aPennsylvania -- Description and travel
653 _aOhio River Valley -- Description and travel
700 1 _aHarris, Thaddeus Mason,
_d1768-1842
700 1 _aMichaux, François André,
_d1770-1855
700 1 _aThwaites, Reuben Gold,
_d1853-1913
830 0 _aEarly western travels, 1748-1846, v. 3
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76162
999 _c116887
_d116887