Research Guides: Tracy W. McGregor Collection on the Discovery and Exploration of the Americas: Travel Literature

Tracy W. McGregor Collection on the Discovery and Exploration of the Americas

Description

This sub-section includes travelers' accounts from across early America. These accounts include descriptions of the land accompanied by maps, as well as Native American tribes and trade.

Highlights

Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the year, 1802 : giving a correct picture of those countries by Berquin-Duvallon
Call Number: Vault; F373 .B55 1806

Publication Date: 1806

Berquin-Duvallon provides accounts of his travels and descriptions of the land. His travels take him through Louisiana, the Mississippi River Valley, and west Florida.
Views of Louisiana : together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811 by H.M. Brackenridge
Call Number: Vault; F353 .B77 1814

Publication Date: 1814

Brackenridge's journal contains descriptions, charts and tables of Louisiana and Native American trade in the region.
Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1798 by Jonathan Carver
Call Number: Vault; F597 .C347 1780

Publication Date: 1780

Carver provides descriptions of the land and his travels through the northwestern states, the Mississippi River Valley, and Minnesota. He also describes his observations of the Native Americans in the northwest states.
Voyages de m. le marquis de CHastellux dans l'Amérique septentrionale : dans les années 1780, 1781 & 1782 by François Jean marquis de Chastellux
Call Number: Vault; E163 .C58 1786

Publication Date: 1786
Premier voyage autour du monde by Antonio Pigafetta
Call Number: Vault; G420.M2 P63 1801

Publication Date: 1801
Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of the Missouri : also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, & 1803. With a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious by François Marie Perrin du Lac
Call Number: Vault; F352 .P4 1807

Publication Date: 1807
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, commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807, and by Fortesque Cuming
Call Number: Vault; F518 .C97 1810

Publication Date: 1810
An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi : and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun Rivers : performed by order of the government of the United States during the years 1 by Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Call Number: Vault; F592 .P63 1810

Publication Date: 1810

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