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| Pratt, Timothy Augustus, Jr. “THE MELANCHOLY MARINER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY.” Journal of the West 1970 9(2): 240-268.
Abstract: Reproduces the journal of Timothy Augustus Pratt, Jr., graduate of Maine's North Yarmouth Academy. Pratt journeyed with his father, mother, and three brothers to California in 1850. The elder Pratt, also named Timothy, took the Abby Baker, a barque of 250 tons, and filled it with house frames for sale in San Francisco. While attempting to pass through the Strait of Magellan, he was becalmed for 80 days. Depressed by the delay and worried about his family's safety, he died aboard ship in July 1850. Timothy Junior commanded the ship into Sacramento Harbor, but died of cholera a few days after he finished his journal at the age of 24. * Period: 1850. Mohl, Raymond A., ed. “"THE GRAND FABRIC OF REPUBLICANISM": A SCOTSMAN DESCRIBES SOUTH CAROLINA 1810-1811.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1970 71(3): 170-188. Abstract: Reprints portions of J. B. Dunlop's diary dealing with his travels in and observations of South Carolina. * Period: 1810-11. Panagopoulos, E. P. “CHATEAUBRIAND'S FLORIDA AND HIS JOURNEY TO AMERICA.” Florida Historical Quarterly 1970 49(2): 140-152. Abstract: The American wilderness captured the imagination of the French writer Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) more than it has ever again fascinated a major European writer. Chateaubriand embellished his travel accounts with imaginative additions to reality, in writing about his visit to the United States from 10 July until 10 December 1791, but many of his observations turned out to be remarkably accurate. Rather than concentrating on whether Chateaubriand really visited all the locales he wrote about, students should study carefully the impact of Chateaubriand's writing on European opinions about America during the first half of the 19th century. One young French nobleman influenced by Chateaubriand's views on America was his cousin, Alexis de Tocqueville. * Period: 1791. Marraro, Howard R. “A DESCRIPTION OF ROME AND NAPLES IN AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MAGAZINE.” Catholic Historical Review 1970 56(4): 661-666. Abstract: Reproduces the text of the leading article published in the April 1785 issue of Boston Magazine, entitled "A Description of Rome and Naples." Its author is anonymous, and he described himself merely as a modern traveler. The article is of interest not only because it is the earliest description of Rome and Naples to appear in an American magazine, but also because of the details it gives of aspects and views of the two cities that drew the attention of travelers. * Period: 1785. Buni, Andrew, ed. “"RAMBLES AMONG THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS": THE JOURNAL OF MARY JANE BOGGS, JUNE 1851.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1969 77(1): 78-111. Abstract: Reprints, with introduction and notes, Miss Boggs's account of her trip through the Shenandoah Valley 10-30 June 1851. * Period: 1851. Mathews, Edward. “AN ABOLITIONIST IN TERRITORIAL WISCONSIN: THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD MATHEWS.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1969 52(4): 330-343. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Recounts Mathews' travels in Wisconsin during a preaching tour, emphasizing his antislavery sentiments. Covers 1844-46. * Period: 1844-46. Mathews, Edward. “AN ABOLITIONIST IN TERRITORIAL WISCONSIN: THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD MATHEWS.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1969 52(3): 248-262. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Recounts Mathews' travels in Wisconsin during a preaching tour, emphasizing his antislavery sentiments. Covers 1840-44. * Period: 1840-44. Koenig, Duane. “THE EUROPEAN WORLD OF ALVAN STEWART, 1831.” Social Studies 1969 60(1): 23-33. Abstract: Presents a detailed analysis of the travels of an American Alvan Stewart in the year 1831. He turned abolitionist and temperance advocate and held views compatible with those of the common man. Stewart's diary gives valuable information concerning significant events in England and * Period: 1831. Beltrami, Giacomo Constantine. “ITALIAN EXILE IN IOWALAND.” Palimpsest 1969 50(12): 661-712. Abstract: Reprints the travel journal of the author during the time in which he was in Iowa, 1823. * Period: 1823. Hemperly, Marion R. “BENJAMIN HAWKINS' TRIP THROUGH ALABAMA, 1796.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 1969 31(3-4): 207-236. Abstract: Reprints Colonel Benjamin Hawkins' journal, 11-31 December 1796. Describes the country, crops, animals, towns, and people. * Period: 1796. Zieman, Margaret K. “TRAVEL ACCOUNTS.” Queen's Quarterly [Canada] 1968 75(3): 511-525. Abstract: Foreign travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries noted the neglect of public education in Upper Canada, although many appreciated the difficulties of establishing schools in pioneer communities. * Period: 18c-19c. Munkres, Robert L. “THE PLAINS INDIAN THREAT ON THE OREGON TRAIL BEFORE 1860.” Annals of Wyoming 1968 40(2): 193-221. Abstract: Examines 66 diaries of travelers using the Oregon Trail between 1834 and 1860 to determine the actual danger from Indian attack on that route. The vast majority of diarists studied encountered no overt threat of attack in either Nebraska or Wyoming. Indian harassment of travelers was mainly through begging, demanding tolls, and theft of livestock. These acts occurred more often than did physical attack. Carelessness of the travelers induced some Indian harassment. * Period: 1834-60. Patton, James W. “GLIMPSES OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE WRITINGS OF NORTHERN AND FOREIGN TRAVELERS, 1783-1860.” North Carolina Historical Review 1968 45(3): 298-323. Abstract: Most travelers who toured America before the Civil War passed through North Carolina. Almost without exception they were critical of the wilderness environment, bad roads, primitive accommodations, and slovenly habits of the people. Travelers were mainly upper-class Europeans, hostile to the South because of slavery; their criticism was not entirely objective. Nevertheless, many of the comments were deserved; North Carolina was a frontier backcountry without signs of progress for much of this period. * Period: 1783-1860. Steen, Ivan D. “CINCINNATI IN THE 1850'S: AS DESCRIBED BY BRITISH TRAVELERS.” Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin 1968 26(3): 255-275. Abstract: Summarizes, comments on, and cites excerpts from books published in England in the mid-19th century. The travelers' chief interests were in hotel and housing accommodations, condition of the streets, retail establishments, entertainment facilities, public schools, prisons, water-supply systems, fire and police services, and the racial origin of the inhabitants (mainly German and Irish) of Cincinnati. "English visitors to Cincinnati in the 1850's scarcely could believe that the largest city in the American West had been in 1800 an outpost of civilization, inhabited by only 750 people. Travelers reported that commerce greatly contributed to the prosperity of the Ohio River port. Steamboats lined its docks, and a profusion of merchandise filled its storehouses." Documented from 26 published volumes by British travelers describing their visits to the United States in the 1850's. * Period: 1850's. Barry, Louise, ed. “CHARLES ROBINSON--YANKEE '49ER. HIS JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 1968 34(2): 179-188. Abstract: A journal covering some of the experiences that physician Charles Robinson and his 50 associates of the Congress and the California Mutual Protective Association had in Kansas during their trip from Boston to the California gold fields in 1849. Robinson's journal-narrative is drawn from a pamphlet Nebraska and Kansas. Report of the Committee of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Co. published in Boston in 1854; a letter he published in the Worcester (Massachusetts) Spy in 1854; and The Kansas Conflict, which he published in 1892. The journal-narrative contains much information about Kansas geography, Indians, missions, and Kansas City.. * Period: 1849. Reed, Merl E., ed. “JOURNAL OF A TRIP FROM PHILADELPHIA TO SALISBURY, N.C., IN 1848.” Mississippi Quarterly 1968 21(1): 71-77. Abstract: Returning to her native State in the summer of 1848 from Philadelphia, 22-year-old Susan Burns kept a record of her trip in the form of a long letter to her brother. She went by steamship, railroad, and stagecoach over rugged roads to Salisbury, North Carolina. The editor considers particularly noteworthy her description of the relationship between the Piedmont area class structure and the type of dwelling each class occupied. The grades of civilization, according to Miss Burns, were as follows: first, log-cabins with a hole in the roof to let smoke out; then, cabins with daubed chimneys; next, weatherboarded houses without window sashes; still higher, frame tenements with glass windows; and, finally, painted dwellings. Those of the last class were so scarce that the young lady did not see a single one on a 38-mile, all-day trip. * Period: 1848. Garrard, Lewis H. “IN THE LODGE OF VI-PO-NA: A VISIT TO THE CHEYENNE.” American West 1968 5(4): 32-36. Abstract: Narrates his travels and observations of his 1846 trip over the Santa Fe Trail and the Southwest, first published in 1850 as Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail. The present narrative is excerpted from a 1968 facsimile reproduction of the 1936 edition. It describes Garrard's visit to a Cheyenne village on the Purgatoire River where he was hospitably received by Chief Vi-Po-Na. Recorded are numerous ethnographic details. * Period: 1846. Mathews, Edward. “AN ABOLITIONIST IN TERRITORIAL WISCONSIN: THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD MATHEWS.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1968 52(1): 3-18. Abstract: Recounts Mathews' travels in Wisconsin during a preaching tour, emphasizing his antislavery sentiments. Covers 1840-42. * Period: 1840-42. Mathews, Edward. “AN ABOLITIONIST IN TERRITORIAL WISCONSIN: THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD MATHEWS.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1968-1969 52(2): 117-131. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Recounts Mathews' travels in Wisconsin during a preaching tour, emphasizing his antislavery sentiments. Covers 1838-39. * Period: 1838-39. Barratt, Margaret, ed. “AN ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEYS UNDERTAKEN BY THE REV. RICHARD AND MRS. BOUCHER 1788-1789.” Historical Studies 1968 1(1): 39-50. Abstract: A detailed record of three coach trips through southern England by Reverend Richard Boucher, Rector of Bright-Waltham, Berkshire. Meticulous notations of terrain, road conditions, scenic views, inns, churches, and houses are common to the record. The first journey of September 1788, a short trip to a relative in Braemore, Hampshire through Salisbury, contains observations of Salisbury Cathedral, its repairs and furnishings, and Stonehenge. The second journey was a 52-mile ride from Bright-Waltham to Cheltenham and back, also in September 1788. The third was a 182-mile circuit to the coast at Lymington including Southampton and Winchester. A note preceding the diary includes inscriptions honoring Reverend and Mrs. Boucher from Bright Waltham Church and a catalog of Boucher's other journey through England from 1787 to 1792. The diary is in the papers of the de Labalmondiere family. * Period: 1788-89. Ware, John D. “A VIEW OF CELI'S JOURNAL OF SURVEYS AND CHART OF 1757.” Florida Historical Quarterly 1968 47(1): 8-24. Abstract: The ship used for Francisco Maria Celi's exploration expedition from Havana to Tampa Bay in 1757 was a xebec, the 'San Francisco de Asis', a relatively small three-masted sailing vessel ordinarily used around the Spanish and Portuguese coasts, with a probable draft of eight or nine feet. Although the expedition was concerned primarily with the survey of Tampa Bay, Celi also described many aspects of the Florida west coast. Indian encounters mentioned in the Celi account suggest a relationship of mutual respect and guarded friendship between the Tampa Bay Indians and the Spanish survey crew. Despite certain shortcomings, Celi's chart served as a useful aid to safe navigation of Tampa Bay. Celi's journal is rich in information for a technical work, despite errors of grammar and of a technical nature. Besides providing information about the Indians and the flora and fauna of the period, it also provides a glimpse of the day-by-day activities of a group of men who made a contribution to the development of the Tampa Bay area. * Period: 1757. Arnade, Charles W. “CELI'S EXPEDITION TO TAMPA BAY: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS.” Florida Historical Quarterly 1968 47(1): 1-7. Abstract: As the French moved into the Mississippi Valley and Spanish interest in the Florida gulf coast was reawakened, Pilot of the Royal Spanish Navy Francisco Maria Celi commanded an exploration expedition from Havana to Tampa in 1757. Although the expedition was entirely naval in both nature and purpose, the Celi report clearly shows the influence of the Enlightenment and the Bourbon policy of stimulating scientific research and exploration. Discovery of the Celi document in the Naval Museum in Madrid suggests repositories for colonial Florida sources other than Seville's Archive of the Indies. * Period: 1757. Gower, Herschel. “TENNESSEE WRITERS ABROAD, 1851: HENRY MANEY AND RANDAL W. MC GAVOCK.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1967 26(4): 396-403. Abstract: During 1840-60 many Americans who visited Europe and the Middle East published travel accounts of their journeys. Henry Maney's Memories Over the Water and Randal W. McGavock's A Tennessean Abroad were published in 1854 and recounted the Tennesseans' tours abroad in 1851. Gives biographical details of the two authors, and outlines the content, scope, and style of their works against the background of southern culture. Period: 1850's. Hufford, Kenneth. “TRAVELERS ON THE GILA TRAIL, 1824-1850 PART II: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.” Journal of Arizona History 1967 8(1): 30-44. Abstract: An annotated bibliography of 63 published original accounts of Gila Trail travelers from 1824 to 1850. Major categories are: Early Explorers, 1824-1836; Military Expeditions, 1845-1849; and the largest, Emigrant Journals of the Gold Rush, 1849-1850. Continued (see abstract 4:2096). * Period: 1824-50. Higgens, Humphrey. “KHANYKOV ON BUKHARA IN 1841.” Central Asian Review 1967 15(2): 114-122. Abstract: Summarizes and describes N. V. Khanykov's description of Bukhara following his visit there in 1841. Khanykov, later a czarist diplomat in Central Asia, left a remarkably detailed report on the khanate. Highlighted are his comments on the country's geography, ethnic composition, trade, and administration. Water control was a very critical problem in Bukhara, and Khanykov gave significant attention to the area's systems of river irrigation. He also studied various national elements among the population, noting their characteristics, number, and location. In regard to commerce, his chief interest was in the growing trade with Russia. Descriptions of major cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand and of the emir's administrative system provide insights into the law, government, education, and health conditions of the khanate. Final notes concern the reigning emir. * Period: 1841-42. Sunder, John E. “BRITISH ARMY OFFICERS ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL.” Missouri Historical Society. Bulletin 1967 23(2): 147-157. Abstract: An account of a hunting trip undertaken by a party of seven officers in the British Army who visited the West to study the habits of the Indians and to enjoy the scenery made famous by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. At present there is no documentary evidence to support the speculation that the group was a covey of spies on a mission to investigate the border country. * Period: 1840. Hitchins, Keith, ed. “THE VISIT OF ALEXANDER FARKAS OF BOLON TO PENNSYLVANIA IN 1831.” Pennsylvania History 1967 34(4): 395-401. Abstract: Alexander Farkas was a Unitarian lawyer from Transylvania, where he was actively interested in economic and political reform. In 1831 he visited North America, seeing New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Quebec, and Ontario. He believed that America was a model society whose virtues his countrymen might well emulate. Part of Farkas' journal describing Erie, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia is reproduced. * Period: 1831. Sibley, Marilyn McAdams, ed. “ACROSS TEXAS IN 1767: THE TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN PAGES.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 1967 70(4): 593-622. Abstract: Travels Round the World in the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 (2 vols., London, 1791), translated from the French, was the first book in English to describe Texas. Its author, Pierre Marie Francois de Pages (1748-93), traveled across Spanish Texas in 1767 on the first leg of his transglobal journey. Whether its author ever saw Texas or whether he fabricated the account in Paris has been contested. Sifting the evidence, the present author accepts its authenticity. The Texas portion of Pages' volume is reprinted here. The account reveals his abiding distrust of the Spanish and his firm faith in Rousseau's ideas of natural man, especially when applied to the Indians. * Period: 1767. Bridges, Katherine; DeVille, Winston, ed., transl. “NATCHITOCHES AND THE TRAIL TO THE RIO GRANDE: TWO EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ACCOUNTS BY THE SIEUR DERBANNE.” Louisiana History 1967 8(3): 239-259. Abstract: Two descriptions of Louisiana and Texas by Francois Dion Deprez Derbanne, an early settler in Atchitoches, and a biographical sketch of Derbanne. The first account was written by Derbanne at Dauphin Island on 1 November 1717. "Journey of the Canadians, Graveline, Derbanne, LaFresnie and DeBeaulieu, to the Rio Grande River [sic], 1716-1717," translated from Pierre A. Margry, Decouvertes et Etablissements des Francais (1614-1754), 6 Vols. (Paris, 1877-86). The second is Derbanne's "Relation du poste de Natchitoches," prepared in New Orleans 22 October 1723, translated from a copy located in the Newberry Library. * Period: 1716-23. “JOURNAL OF A PEDDLING TRIP, KEPT BY EBENEZER GRAVES OF ASHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.” Old-Time New England 1966 56(4): 108-116. Abstract: Continued from an earlier article (see abstract 10:3554). Mentions people, places, and events recorded by Ebenezer Graves on a peddling trip through Massachusetts and Maine in the early 19th century. * Period: ca 1800-50. Unsigned. “NOTES OF A TOURIST THROUGH THE UPPER MISSOURI REGION.” Missouri Historical Society. Bulletin. 1966 22(4, pt. 1): 393-409. Abstract: A microfilm reproduction of an article in four parts which originally appeared in a St. Louis weekly, The Missouri Saturday News, published for only one year (from 6 January 1838 to 19 January 1839), dated 25 August, 1 September, 8 September, and 15 September 1838. Apart from his signature (Jacques), the author is unknown. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Madison has the complete file of this obscure paper. Jacques described a tour of the Upper Missouri region by a party of unknown explorers. He was convinced that the Indian is "an idler and a savage." All attempts on the part of the government to assist the Indians to become an agricultural peaple had been unsuccessful. "Let an attempt therefore be made to induce the border tribes to become herdsmen, and in case of the success of the plan, their own immediate wants will not only be supplied, but they will soon become a wealthy people." Jacques said that although Indian children neglected their parents, parents seldom or never neglected their children; that true courage was not a trait of Indian character; that most Indian women were beautiful, and that "their faces do not belie their hearts." * Period: 1838-39. Constantine, J. Robert. “THE IGNOBLE SAVAGE, AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERARY STEREOTYPE.” Phylon 1966 27(2): 171-179. Abstract: Traces the theme of the "ignoble Savage," of African degeneracy and depravity, in the extensive voyages and travels literature of 18th-century England. The theme was developed as a defense of slavery and the slave trade. Abolitionists attacked the thesis and cited views of dissenting travelers. * Period: 18c. Moseley, Edward H. “EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE IN THE EYES OF AN AMERICAN TOURIST: THE TOUR OF FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA, 1785-1789.” Southern Quarterly 1966 4(4): 365-373. Abstract: An account of a European tour made by Francisco de Miranda (1750?-1816), the "Precursor of Spanish American Independence," between 1785 and 1789. Leaving England in August, 1785, Miranda visited the Low Countries, Germany, Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. For almost four years, Miranda crisscrossed the Continent, recording his observations and impressions, including many lively discussions of history, politics, science, war, and travel. "Within three months after his return to England a violent upheaval began in France. The French Revolution swept throughout Europe, upsetting the entire political, social, and economic system which the young Venezuelan had just observed. The vast journal of Miranda, then, provides the historian of 18th-century Europe with a unique source, an account of Europe on the eve of the French Revolution as seen through the eyes of an American tourist....His report substantiates the stereotype concepts of the Age of Reason in most instances, but gives a fresh and intimate view of the continent through which he passed." * Period: 1785-89. Delaney, Caldwell. “A NEWLY-FOUND FRENCH JOURNAL, 1720.” Alabama Review 1966 19(2): 146-153. Abstract: Edited excerpts from the journal of Jean Francois de la Clue, member of a detachment of French soldiers on the frigate Comte de Toulouse which sailed into Mobile Bay in June 1720. Describes the entry into the bay, a brief excursion ashore, and the Indians living near Mobile Bay. * Period: 1720. Heilbron, Bertha L. “WHERE TO SETTLE? A BROTHER'S ADVICE.” Minnesota History 1965 39(7): 286-289. Abstract: Letters from George Lewis, early traveler in Minnesota (1847-48) to his younger brother, Henry, plus passages from the account of his travels as published in Germany Das illustrierte Mississippithal (1854-57), are used to show what the land and climate of Minnesota was like in the mid-19th century and how it must have appeared to the early settlers of the state. * Period: 1840's-50's. Simison, Barbara Damon, ed. “DR. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE'S JOURNEY TO SARATOGA SPRINGS IN THE SUMMER OF 1794.” Yale University Library Gazette 1965 40(2): 82-103. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Concludes Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's account describing the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court of Saratoga county and its historical and legal implications. * Period: 1794. Simison, Barbara Damon, ed. “DR. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE'S JOURNEY TO SARATOGA SPRINGS IN THE SUMMER OF 1794.” Yale University Library Gazette 1965 40(1): 18-48. Abstract: Excerpts from the journal of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse (l754-1846) revealing his interest in history, law, science, literature, religion, and other subjects. * Period: 1794. Jones, George F. “VON RECK'S SECOND REPORT FROM GEORGIA.” William and Mary Quarterly 1965 22(2): 319-333. Abstract: This is an account of the second Georgia journey of Phillip Georg Friedrich von Reck in 1735-36. Von Reck was engaged in transporting Salzburg exiles to Georgia. He gives an entertaining description of the Spaniards, Indians, and wildlife. The document is reproduced. * Period: 1735-36. Towle, Edward L. “A NEW BARON DE LAHONTAN MEMOIR ON NEW YORK AND THE GREAT LAKES.” New York History 1965 46(3): 212-229. Abstract: Baron de Lahontan became well known to scholars for his false report regarding a river which allegedly linked the Mississippi with a great Western Ocean. Aware of this fictional account, historians have rejected Lahontan's lesser publications. He was actually one of the first men to grasp the geo-political implications of the Great Lakes drainage basin. Lahontan engaged in various activities in the Great Lakes region between 1687 and 1689. In 1692 he proposed the economic development of the Great Lakes drainage basin. Lahontan engaged in various activities in the Great Lakes region between 1687 and 1689. In 1692 he proposed the economic development of the Great Lakes basin by France and the construction of a French fleet on the Lakes. French colonial officials rejected his proposals as too impractical and visionary, causing him to turn to the British. Sometime after 1710 but before the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Lahontan prepared a memoir for the private use of English officials. In this document, which is reprinted in full, Lahontan's major concern was the vagueness and imprecision of the French-English boundary in the Great Lakes region. He recommended that the St. Lawrence River be accepted as the boundary between New England and New France. * Period: 1683-1713. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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