Westward hoboes: Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of episodic adventures across…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

Randolph B. Marcy

The Prairie Traveler is a practical handbook for anyone planning an over‑land journey across the American…

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Charles Warren Stoddard

The work is a travelogue that blends youthful celebration with a sweeping survey of the American West.

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839 and De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Farnham, Thomas Jefferson; Smet, Pierre-Jean de

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue that combines two distinct but related narratives: Thomas…

Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)

Croghan, George; Morris, Thomas; Post, Christian Frederick; Weiser, Conrad

This volume assembles the surviving journals of four frontier figures, Conrad Weiser, George Croghan,…