Afloat on the Ohio Part 14

_Ashe, Thomas._ Travels in America, performed in 1806. London, 1808.

Among the best of the early journals, although abounding in exaggerations.

_c.u.ming, F._ Sketches of a tour to the Western country, etc., commenced in 1807 and concluded in 1809. Pittsburg, 1810.

_Bradbury, John._ Travels [1809-11] in the interior of America.

Liverpool, 1817.

_Melish, John._ Travels in the United States of America [1811].

Philadelphia, 1812, 2 vols.

Vol. 2 contains the journal of the author's voyage down the river, in a skiff. The account of means of early navigation is graphic.

_Flint, Timothy._ Recollections of the last ten years. Boston, 1826.

There is no better account of boats, and river life generally, in 1814-15, the time of Flint's voyage.

_Fearon, Henry Bradshaw._ Sketches of America [1817]. London, 1819.

_Palmer, John._ Journal of travels in the United States of North America [1817]. London, 1818.

_Evans, Estwick._ A pedestrian tour [1818] of four thousand miles through the Western states and territories. Concord, N. H., 1819.

_Birkbeck, Morris._ Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. London, 1818.

The author traveled, in 1817, by light wagon from Richmond to Pittsburg; and from Pittsburg to Cincinnati by horseback. This book, interesting for economic conditions, together with the author's "Letters from Illinois," did much to inspire emigration to Illinois from England. His English colony, at English Prairie, Ill., was much visited by travelers of the period.

_Faux, W._ Journal of a tour to the United States [in 1819].

Excellent pictures of American life and agricultural methods, by an English gentleman farmer. Attacks Birkbeck's roseate views.

_Ogden, George W._ Letters from the West, comprising a tour through the Western country [1821], and a residence of two summers in the States of Ohio and Kentucky. New Bedford, Ma.s.s., 1823.

_Welby, Adlard._ A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois. London, 1821.

The author went by horseback, occasionally touching the river towns.

_Beltrami, J. C._ Pilgrimage in Europe and America. London, 1828, 2 vols.

In Vol. II the author describes a steamboat journey in 1823, from Pittsburg to the mouth.

_Hall, James._ Letters from the West. London, 1828.

Valuable for scenery, manners, and customs, and anecdotes of early Western settlement.

_Anonymous._ The Americans as they are; described by a tour through the valley of the Mississippi. London, 1828.

_Trollope, Mrs._ [Frances M.]. Domestic manners of the Americans.

London and New York, 1832.

A lively caricature, the precursor of d.i.c.kens' "American Notes." Mrs. Trollope's voyages on the Ohio were in 1828 and 1830.

_Vigne, G.o.dfrey T._ Six months in America. London, 1832, 2 vols.

_Hamilton, T._ Men and manners in America. Philadelphia, 1833.

Includes a steamboat journey from Pittsburg to New Orleans.

_Alexander, Capt. J. E._ Transatlantic sketches. London, 1833, 2 vols.

Vol. II. has an account of a trip up the river.

_Stuart, James._ Three years in North America. New York, 1833, 2 vols.

Vol. II. includes a voyage up the Ohio. The author takes issue, throughout, with Mrs. Trollope.

_Brackenridge, H. M._ Recollections of persons and places in the West.

Philadelphia, 1834.

Describes river trips, during the first decade of the century.

_Tudor, Henry._ Narrative of a tour [1831-32] in North America.

London, 1834, 2 vols.

The Ohio trip is in Vol. II.

_Arfwedson, C. D._ The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834. London, 1834, 2 vols.

In Vol. II is a report of a steamboat trip up the river.

_Latrobe, Charles Joseph._ The rambler in North America. New York, 1835, 2 vols.

Vol. II has an account of a descending steamboat voyage.

_Anonymous._ A winter in the West. By a New Yorker. New York (2nd ed.), 1835, 2 vols.

In Vol. I. is an entertaining account of a stage-coach ride in 1833, from Pittsburg to Cleveland, touching all settlements on the Upper Ohio down to Beaver River.

_Nichols, Thomas L._ Forty years of American life. London, 1864, 2 vols.

In Vol. I. the author tells of a steamboat tour from Pittsburg to New Orleans, in 1840.

_d.i.c.kens, Charles._ American notes. New York, 1842.

d.i.c.kens, in 1841, traveled in steamboats from Pittsburg to St. Louis. His dyspeptic comments on life and manners in the United States, at the time grated harshly on the ears of our people; but afterward, they grew strong and wise enough to smile at them. The book is to-day, like Mrs. Trollope's, entertaining reading for an American.

_Rubio_ (pseud.). Rambles in the United States and Canada, in 1845.

London, 1846.