Travels West Of The Alleghanies

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331777055
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Vol. 8 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Vol. 8: 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; Buttrick's Voyages, (1812-1819); Evans's Pedestrious Tour, 1818 Into this changing West the wanderer Buttrick came. Arrived at Buffalo before the declaration of war, he was upon the Canadian side of the Niagara frontier when the fateful news arrived, and for a brief time was detained as a hostage by the British General Brock. When released, he returned to Massachusetts; but two years later started for Kentucky passing west through New York State, and floating down the Allegheny and Ohio to Cincinnati. On this journey he gives us an interesting picture of river life, and its exigencies; while with graphic pen he portrays the bad roads, fever and ague, and deserted condition of the country through which he returned to his Eastern home. In 1815 began his longest journey through the West. He encountered at Olean, on the Allegheny, a large body of Eastern emigrants who were awaiting the opening of navigation and the rise of the Western rivers. Swept rap idly down on the freshet, Buttrick landed in Kentucky; but having been attacked by his old enemy, fever and ague, he embarked for New Orleans, thus enabling him to draw for us a brief but vivid picture of Mississippi navigation. From the Southern metropolis Buttrick started on foot for the North, over the route known as the Natchez trail a wild and lonely journey of a thousand miles, through the land of semi-hostile Indians and backwoodsmen nearly as savage. Upon this hazardous journey he was 'generally alone, always sick, often hungry, sometimes nearly starved, and beset by drunken Indians; but he struggled on, arriving in Cincinnati after forty-seven days en route. While the chief interest of Buttrick's journal lies in his own adventures, yet these are in a way typical of Western conditions, and throw much light on the hardships of pioneers, and the devastations of the War of 1812-15.1812-1819. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.