Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida....Together with a Notice of an Expedition Through Louisiana
Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810.
Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii, [9]-504, in contemporary calf binding. Front joint starting, dampstain near gutter of preliminaries only; otherwise quite clean and sound, with ownership signature of Woodbury B. Purinton on title page. Very good. Cuming, an Irishman who had purchased land in Ohio, traveled extensively along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in 1807-1809. His account of the journey provides "a detailed and accurate record of pioneer social and political conditions" (Hubach p. 41), with lively descriptions of all the small towns he visited and colorful characters he encountered. Thomson (286) praises it as "one of the most interesting works relating to the west," and the Streeter catalogue (1325) calls it "one of the best early accounts of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys." Howes C-947; Graff 955; Sabin 17890.
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