Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel books

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

George Byron Merrick

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi is a first‑person memoir by George Byron Merrick, a “cub” steamboat pilot…

Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809)

Fortescue Cuming

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

Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842

Flagg, Edmund; Smet, Pierre-Jean de

Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1

Edmund Flagg

Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813

Alexander Ross

Trip to the West and Texas comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5.

A. A. Parker

The Americans as they are: Described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi

Charles Sealsfield

A Summer in the Wilderness embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior

Charles Lanman

The Man with the Iron Hand

John Carl Parish