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_aNuttall, Thomas, _d1786-1859 |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | _aA journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aEarly western travels, 1748-1846, v. 13 | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-18 | ||
| 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"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.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cCleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905 |
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| 653 | _aMississippi River -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aOhio River -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aSouthwest, Old -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aArkansas -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aArkansas River -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aIndians of North America -- Southwest, Old | ||
| 653 | _aOklahoma -- Description and travel | ||
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_aThwaites, Reuben Gold, _d1853-1913 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aEarly western travels, 1748-1846, v. 13 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77978 |
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