Item #20701 Geographical Sketches of the Western Country. Designed for Emigrants and Settlers: Being the Result of Extensive Researches and Remarks. To Which is Added, a Summary of all the Most Interesting Matters on the Subjects, Including A Particular Description of the Unsold Public Lands, Collected from a Variety of Authentic Sources. Also, a List of the Principal Roads. EMIGRANTS' GUIDE, E. Dana, Edmund.

[EMIGRANTS' GUIDE] Dana, E. [Edmund]

Geographical Sketches of the Western Country. Designed for Emigrants and Settlers: Being the Result of Extensive Researches and Remarks. To Which is Added, a Summary of all the Most Interesting Matters on the Subjects, Including A Particular Description of the Unsold Public Lands, Collected from a Variety of Authentic Sources. Also, a List of the Principal Roads

Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co. Printers, 1819.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 12mo, 312 pp, in contemporary calf binding with black spine label. Some rubbing to corners and joints, old dampstaining and foxing to the text, but still quite sound and presentable. Wagner Camp (15a): The major portion of the work deals with the states and territories on the east of the Mississippi River, from Alabama to Michigan and the Northwest Territory. There are, however, chapters devoted to Louisiana, Texas (at the time still part of New Spain), "Arkansaw" Territory, Missiouri Territory, and "Sketches of the Country Watered by Columbia and Its Tributary Streams." Howes D-47, Graff 997, Sabin 18408, Streeter Sale 840.