André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.

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A compilation of three travel journals documenting journeys across the trans-Alleghany West, combining close botanical observation, descriptions of landscapes and settlements, practical notes on cultivation and timber, and reports of encounters with local inhabitants. The texts alternate daily journal entries and scientific commentary, supplemented by maps, illustrations, and editorial material, and together they chronicle routes, plant collections, and experimental attempts at transplantation while also recording the social and geographic conditions encountered during exploration.

Early Western Travels

1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel,
descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites

Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Wisconsin
Historical Collections,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare,”
“Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc.

Volume III

André Michaux’s Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96. François
André Michaux’s Travels West of Alleghany Mountains,
1802. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s Journal of a Tour
Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803

Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1904