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| Coleman, Louis. “TWENTY-FIVE DAYS TO THE CHOCTAW NATION.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 1986-1987 64(4): 4-15.
Abstract: George Dana II undertook a 25-day journey by steamboat, stagecoach, and wagon from Belpre, Ohio, to Eagletown in the Choctaw Nation of southeastern Oklahoma during January 1852. There he claimed as his bride Lucy Byington, daughter of prominent missionary Cyrus Byington, whom he had met four years earlier in Ohio. Dana's diary of the trip contains references to steamboat accidents, crude facilities for stagecoach passengers, and his hatred of slavery, which he encountered along the way. Despite the hardships of the journey, the wedding was a joyous occasion, and the couple soon returned to Ohio. * Period: 1852. Dilley, Robert S. “BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN EARLY UPPER CANADA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ITINERARIES AND IMAGES.” Canadian Papers in Rural History [Canada] 1986 5: 198-223. Abstract: Systematically examines and analyzes 10 travel accounts in Upper Canada during the first half of the 19th century. Three topics are addressed: 1) which places were written about most often, 2) what aspects of each place were considered most important, and 3) what overall impressions were given of each place. Answers to these questions were obtained by content analysis, illustrating its application to historical research. * Period: 1805-45. Deis, Elizabeth J. and Frye, Lowell T. “"LONDON OR ELSE THE BACK-WOODS": SOME BRITISH VIEWS OF AMERICA IN THE 1830S.” South Atlantic Quarterly 1986 85(4): 374-387. Abstract: A survey of how British writers - Thomas Carlyle, Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau, Frederick Marryat, Basil Hall, and Thomas Hamilton - viewed America through the pages of travel books and leading literary journals, such as Blackwood's, the Edinburgh Review, and the Quarterly Review, in the 1830's. In some instances writers recorded only their prejudices; in others they wished to find easy conclusions that either supported or opposed the movement for English Reform. Most authors failed to provide a careful analysis of the American scene; only a small minority ventured impressions of individual phenomena that enrich life. * Period: 1830's. Kramer, Carl E. “CITY WITH A VISION: IMAGES OF LOUISVILLE IN THE 1830S.” Filson Club History Quarterly 1986 60(4): 427-452. Abstract: Describes various observations on Louisville, Kentucky, during the decade after its incorporation in 1828. The city was depicted as physically attractive and commercially successful, though somewhat unhealthful. * Period: 1828-39. Roba, William. “TRAVEL ON THE WESTERN ILLINOIS FRONTIER: THE MEMOIR OF WILLIAM DICKSON.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 1986 9(2): 60-69. Abstract: Written at 70 years of age, William Dickson's "A Few Short Sketches of My Eventful Life" presents a graphic account of his 1834 and 1836 travels on the western Illinois prairie, a vast, unexplored wilderness, and the dangers faced by those settling there. * Period: 1834-36. Bryan, George B. “AS THE ACTORS SAW US: JOHN DURANG, JOHN BERNARD, AND TYRONE POWER ON VERMONTERS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS.” Vermont History 1986 54(2): 88-99. Abstract: Records the impressions of three actors visiting Vermont, taken from their diaries. John Durang, a Pennsylvanian actor, circus rider, and clown with John B. Ricketts's troupe, rode horseback and lodged at Fair Haven, Shoreham, and Basin Harbor, Vermont, in 1797. John Bernard's company traveled in three carriages or wagons from Walpole, New Hampshire, to Burlington, Vermont, in the summer of 1808, and gave two performances there. He returned the next year via stage coach to Rutland and wagon to Whitehall and St. Jean, Quebec. Tyrone Power traversed Lake Champlain in the steamer Phoenix in June 1835, admiring the scenery. * Period: 1797-1835. Lupton, David Walker and Lupton, Dorothy Ruland. “A DRAGOON IN ARKANSAS TERRITORY IN 1833.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1986 45(3): 217-227. Abstract: Prints 2d Lieutenant Lancaster Platt Lupton's brief diary of 16 May to 11 June 1833, containing an account of his journey between Fort Towson, in present-day southeastern Oklahoma, and the Post of Arkansas, en route to Nashville, Tennessee, where Lupton was to recruit troops for the army. Lupton encountered difficulties because of serious flooding of the Washita and Arkansas rivers. * Period: 1833. Muckle, James. “ALEXANDER I AND WILLIAM ALLEN: A TOUR OF RUSSIAN SCHOOLS IN 1819 AND SOME MISSING REPORTS.” History of Education [Great Britain] 1986 15(3): 137-145. Abstract: In 1819, William Allen, a member of the Society of Friends, visited Russian schools and reported to the tsar on what he saw in order to further the development of education for the poor. Reviews this visit, placing Allen's study of schools in the perspective of his broader aims in visiting Russia. Also comments on Allen's relationship with Emperor Alexander I, which achieved an unusual degree of intimacy. * Period: 1819. Buchanan, Michelle. “SAVAGES, NOBLE AND OTHERWISE, AND THE FRENCH .” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1986 15: 97-110. Abstract: Examines the use of the savage in literature of the French Enlightenment. An examination of the treatment of indigenous peoples both in travel accounts and fiction from 1580 to 1776 showed that the idea that the French philosophes promoted a concept of the Noble Savage, whose direct and honest connection with nature contrasted with the moral bankruptcy of civilization, was largely an illusion; most references to savages in French literature from the period were demeaning, farcical, or paternalistic. * Period: 1509-1801. Manzo, Bettina, ed. “A VIRGINIAN IN NEW YORK: THE DIARY OF ST. GEORGE TUCKER, JULY-AUGUST 1786.” New York History 1986 67(2): 177-197. Abstract: In 1786 the 30-year-old Virginia lawyer St. George Tucker, with his wife and a friend, journeyed to New York City on behalf of a client. Tucker kept a diary, partly in the form of letters meant for his sons at home. Entries dated 20 July to 27 August 1786 show Tucker to have been observant and eager to see all the city had to offer, and the documents are a very useful description of life in the city at that time. On the return trip to Virginia, Tucker was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention that led the following year to the constitutional convention. * Period: 1786. “"MR DESBARRES - DESCRIPTION OF NOVA SCOTIA," CA. 1763.” Nova Scotia Historical Review [Canada] 1986 6(2): 105-119. Abstract: Reprints a report written by a young surveyor, Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, later lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, describing the nature of the countryside and presenting a proposal for building roads in the territory. * Period: 1763. Lough, John. “TWO MORE BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN THE FRANCE OF LOUIS XIV.” Seventeenth Century [Great Britain] 1986 1(2): 159-175. Abstract: Adds two sources to those described in John Lough's France Observed in the Seventeenth Century by British Travellers. Walter Graham's edition of Joseph Addison's letters includes 18 written during Addison's travels in France in 1699-1700. James Hume's account of his trip to France in 1714 was printed in William Young's The History of Dulwich College (1889). * Period: 1699-1714. Vance, William L. “THE SIDELONG GLANCE: VICTORIAN AMERICANS AND BAROQUE ROME.” New England Quarterly 1985 58(4): 501-532. Abstract: In their collective and individual representations of Rome, Victorian travelers either ignored or disapproved of European sculpture and architecture created from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries. For them, baroque was "flawed and illogical." The religious practices of Catholicism affected Protestant Americans' perception and judgment of baroque ecclesiastical works. The religious vitality and material splendor of the Roman Catholic Church threatened American beliefs in the progressive modernity and the ethical superiority of America. In most cases, anti-Catholic prejudices coincided with a distaste for the baroque. Attitudes toward St. Peter's Cathedral illustrate all the ambivalences, contradictions, evasions, and attractions that Americans experienced in baroque Rome. * Period: 1850-1910. Voros, Karoly. “THE IMAGE OF AMERICA IN HUNGARIAN MASS CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Etudes Historiques Hongroises [Hungary] 1985 2: 647-662. Abstract: Surveys Hungarian travel accounts, letters, and geography books mentioning North America. Although such accounts began in 1583, only in the 18th century did they really penetrate popular culture, at first by appealing to interests in New World missions and the desire to read about exotic environments and Indians. Enlightenment authors sympathized with bourgeois colonists and deplored the social customs of the "savages." Nineteenth-century authors admired the civil rights and economic prosperity enjoyed by many US citizens but marvelled at the brutality of slavery. The image of America changed as the social class of Hungarian observers and their audiences changed. * Period: 19c. Pratt, Mary Louise. “SCRATCHES ON THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY; OR, WHAT MR. BARROW SAW IN THE LAND OF THE BUSHMEN.” Critical Inquiry 1985 12(1): 119-143. Abstract: Analyzes the description of manners and customs in some 19th-century travelogues, chiefly about Period: 19c. Bullock, Ronald. “TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE KENYAN HINTERLAND BY COASTMEN, 1850-1880.” Terrae Incognitae 1985 17: 69-87. Abstract: Prior to full-scale European exploration, four English and German missionaries and a British doctor published accounts of trading journeys inland. Generally, the traders were Africans or Arabs, who described their routes to the Europeans. These routes cannot be traced exactly today because villages have disappeared or changed names and topographic detail is limited in the original accounts. Further linguistic and field study may reveal clues to the gaps in place identification. * Period: 1850-80. Ross, David. “MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY DAHOMEY: RECENT VIEWS VS. CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE.” History in Africa 1985 12: 307-323. Abstract: Historians have recently depicted the precolonial kingdom of Dahomey as a successfully constructed and stable West African nation-state. In the eyes of mid-Victorian era travelers, however, Dahomey appeared to constitute a barbaric and warlike predatory state. Although their personal backgrounds and views of African societies differed appreciably, the antislavery naval officer F. E. Forbes, the prominent linguist and Orientalist Richard F. Burton, and the entomologist J. A. Skertchly all visited Dahomey between 1849 and 1871 and came away with markedly similar conclusions on the nature of the Fon kingdom. They all reported that Dahomey was essentially a military community, run by a hierarchy of warrior nobles, who raided neighboring societies for slaves and expanded the state to the coast to participate in the Atlantic slave trade. * Period: 1849-71. McFarland, K. T. H., ed. “DR. ANDERSON'S TRAVELS.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 1985 68(3): 291-298. Abstract: Presents a biography of Dr. James Anderson, a respected physician in 19th-century Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and excerpts original documents describing a journey he took in 1836 to what is now Clarion County, Pennsylvania. * Period: 1782-1858. Malley, Richard C. “ON SHORE IN A FOREIGN LAND: MARY STARK IN THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII.” Log of Mystic Seaport 1985 37(3): 79-92. Abstract: Describes Hawaii as seen through the letters of Mary Elizabeth Rathbun Stark (1826-1909), who spent two months in Honolulu as part of a voyage with her husband, Henry S. Stark (1820-57) in command of the clipper B. F. Hoxie out of Mystic, Connecticut. * Period: 1855. Keller, Robert H., Jr., ed. “A MISSIONARY TOUR OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY: T. DWIGHT HUNT'S 1855 REPORT.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1985 76(4): 148-155. Abstract: Reverend T. Dwight Hunt (1821-95) served as a minister for the American Home Missionary Society in California and Washington Territory during 1848-57. In 1855 he followed a water and land route from Portland, Oregon, via Monticello, Cowlitz Landing, and Olympia to Steilacoom, Washington Territory. Hunt seemed oblivious to the approach of an Indian war, but he blamed white land hunger and alcohol for the degeneration of once-powerful Indian tribes. His report also described each of the settlements and predicted the future pattern of development for each. * Period: 1855. Merwe, Pieter van der. “THEATRES AND SPECTACLES IN ITALY: AN ENGLISHMAN ON TOUR, 1838-9.” Theatre Research International [Great Britain] 1985 10(1): 46-58. Abstract: Describes a recently discovered journal, written from 1838 to 1839, by an English lawyer Thomas George Fonnereau (1789-1850) while on an extended tour in Italy with his friend, the artist Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867). In the journal he provides his impressions of theaters and operas that he visited, as well as other public spectacles. Reproduces extracts from the journal. * Period: 1838-39. Franks, C. E. S. “ONTARIO'S NORTH IN 1837: DAVID THOMPSON'S EXPLORATIONS OF THE MUSKOKA AND MADAWASKA RIVERS.” Queen's Quarterly [Canada] 1985 92(2): 348-363. Abstract: Of great historical value are the notes on the surveying of the Muskoka-Madawaska river route from Georgian Bay to the Ottawa River by David Thompson in 1837. Thompson's Travels is a remarkable document and shows the skills and resources that were then needed to travel through what has become the heart of the vacationland of southern Ontario. * Period: 1837. McDonough, John J., ed. “MR. SHELBY GOES TO WASHINGTON.” Filson Club History Quarterly 1985 59(2): 205-222. Abstract: Prints the edited diary of Kentuckian Alfred Shelby, covering his trip to Washington, D.C., in December 1826 and January 1827. Among those he saw and described in detail are Daniel Webster, John Randolph, John Caldwell Calhoun, and Thomas Hart Benton. * Period: 1826-27. Cole, Richard C. “AN IRISH LIBRARY AND A EUROPEAN TOUR, 1815-1817.” Library Quarterly 1985 55(1): 34-51. Abstract: The manuscript catalog for the library of Quinville Abbey, County Clare, Ireland, is bound with the manuscript travel journal kept by John Singleton (ca. 1793-1877) of his European tour, 1815-17. In Singleton's journal are at least 85 quotations or citations from 52 titles and 40 authors listed in the Quinville Abbey library catalog of 621 titles. Works from the library by Byron, John Chetwode Eustace, Milton, Rousseau, Madame de Stael, Virgil, and four Oxford poets were important in shaping both the tour itself and the record preserved of it in the journal. Singleton's library catalog and his travel journal are unique in two ways. Of the 199 private libraries in Ireland whose catalogs survive from the period 1750-1850, detailed evidence of use exists only for Singleton. Of the many European tours from the period for which journals survive, Singleton's is the only one directly reflecting an identified library catalog. * Period: 1815-17. Greenfield, Bruce. “THE RHETORIC OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF EXPLORATION.” Dalhousie Review [Canada] 1985 65(1): 56-65. Abstract: Explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries who wrote about their experiences found themselves caught between the expectations and interests of their countrymen (some of whom were their patrons or employers) and an honest reporting of the actual experiences of the places and people they encountered. To deal with this conflict, explorers developed rhetorical narrative strategies, as shown in British explorer Samuel Hearne's A Journey from Prince of Wale's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795) and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean (1814). * Period: 1795-1814. Lewis, Meriwether. Adams, Percy. “PERCEPTION AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELER.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 1985 26(2): 139-157. Abstract: Eighteenth-century travelers showed a marked inability to grasp the meaning of phenomena new to them. Two extreme types dominated travel literature: those who noted objective data such as names and distances and those who noted subjective observations such as opinions and personal adventures. In either case, distortion usually occurred. * Period: 18c. Black, Jeremy. “ON THE GRAND TOUR IN A YEAR OF REVOLUTION.” Francia [West Germany] 1985 13: 333-353. Abstract: Son of a prominent radical merchant, Samuel Boddington (1766-1843) visited Paris on the Grand Tour of 1789. His "hitherto unpublished letters . . . to his family are a valuable source both for the response of a British tourist to the beginning of the Revolution and for the Grand Tour on the eve of its dissolution by revolution and war." The author introduces and prints excerpts from the letters, 3 July-21 August 1789, following Boddington's tour through France and Switzerland. * Period: 1789. Porter, Bernard. “"BUREAU AND BARRACK": EARLY VICTORIAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CONTINENT.” Victorian Studies 1984 27(4): 407-438. Abstract: Argues against the notion that the Victorians were xenophobic. The major evidence to support the myth is travel literature, often written by "travel snobs," themselves British, who looked down on the less refined tourists. For the period between 1820 and 1870, at least, expressions of xenophobia were related to political and ideological differences with France and Russia. After 1870, when Great Britain felt more threatened, actual xenophobia did seem to increase. Anti-black and anti-Indian feelings, of course, were strong, not only because of racism but also because of rebellious attitudes in the empire. * Period: 1820-70. Kohl, Johann Georg; Trautmann, Frederic, ed., transl. “JOHANN GEORG KOHL, A GERMAN TRAVELER IN TERRITORIAL MINNESOTA.” Minnesota History 1984 49(4): 126-139. Abstract: Reprints part of the travel account of Johann Georg Kohl, notable German geographer-historian and scientist, describing the location, founding, and growth of St. Paul, including the land boom of 1854-57. Pays particular attention to St. Anthony's Falls, Minnehaha Falls, Fort Snelling, and Carver Cave. Describes westward wagon trains. * Period: 1854-58. Craig, Christine. “WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS LITERARY GENRE AND A WINDOW TO CHARACTER.” Caribbean Quarterly [Jamaica] 1984 30(2): 33-47. Abstract: Describes the travel account and autobiography of Mary Seacole, a 19th-century Jamaican woman, which was published in 1857 under the title, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. * Period: 1850-57. Trautmann, Frederic, ed., transl. “WISCONSIN THROUGH A GERMAN'S EYES IN 1855: THE TRAVELS OF JOHANN GEORG KOHL.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 1984 67(4): 263-278. Abstract: Presents an edited translation of the Wisconsin section of Travels in the Northwest, written by the distinguished German geographer Johann Georg Kohl. Although Kohl found Wisconsin inhabitants woefully ignorant of the outside world, he admired their industry and lauded the opportunities for social mobility. Kohl was ambivalent about the character of the state's American Indians, but enthusiastic about its German immigrants. * Period: 1855. Tolles, Bryant F., Jr., ed. “"JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE WHITE HILLS": AN 1842 CHRONICLE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 1984 120(1): 1-37. Abstract: Accompanied by his friend and Harvard classmate, James C. Merrill, Jr., of Boston, Samuel Johnson (1822-82) toured the White Mountains in late August and early September, 1842. His journal traces his travels from Boston to Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Portland, Maine; Crawford Notch; Franconia Notch; and the Lake Winnepesaukee-Squam Lakes region. * Period: 1842. Trautmann, Frederic. “SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH A GERMAN'S EYES: THE TRAVELS OF CLARA VON GERSTNER, 1839.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1984 85(3): 220-232. Abstract: Austrian railroad engineer Franz von Gerstner and his wife, Clara, toured the United States from October 1839 until Gerstner's death in Philadelphia in April 1840. Clara von Gerstner's journal of her travels was later published as Beschreibung einer Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den Jahren 1838 bis 1840 [Description of a journey through the United States of America, 1838-40] (1842). Her description of South Carolina, reprinted in translation in this article, included discussions of slavery, yellow fever, transportation, politics, scenery and points of interest, economics, taxes, and a Methodist camp meeting. * Period: 1839. Schoeman, Karel. “ANDREW SMITH AND THE EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AFRICA: AN ACCOUNT BY TWO PARTICIPANTS.” Africana Notes and News [South Africa] 1984 26(4): 142-148. Abstract: Andrew Smith's expedition into Central Africa in 1834-36 was recounted in his own journal and in the accounts of other members of the expedition or travelers who accompanied it for part of the way. Among these travelers were the German missionaries August Gebel, Gustav Adolf Kraut, and Johannes Schmidt, who had just been sent out by the Berlin Missionary Society and who traveled with Smith until Philippolis, where they went off on their own into the Transorangia to found the still-existing mission station of Bethanie near the Riet River. Includes extracts of the journals of the three missionaries as recorded in the Missionsberichte of the Berlin Missionary Society (1835). * Period: 1834-36. Richardson, William. “WRANGELL'S JOURNEY OF 1836: "FROM SITKA TO SAINT PETERSBURG BY WAY OF MEXICO."“ Pacific Historian 1984 28(4): 42-54. Abstract: Recounts the efforts of Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel, the governor of Russian America from 1831 to 1836, to initiate discussions which might lead to increased trade between Mexico and the Russian possessions in America. Due, in part, to the politically and geographically deteriorating conditions in Mexico, Wrangell's negotiations yielded almost no positive results. His trip was still significant because his description of Mexico in the mid-1830's presented a unique picture of the country. * Period: 1835-36. Kilar, Jeremy W. “TOCQUEVILLE'S COMPANION TRAVELER GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT AND THE JOURNEY INTO THE MICHIGAN WILDERNESS IN 1831.” Michigan History 1984 68(1): 34-39. Abstract: Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville's traveling companion, wrote Marie, a novel that provides insight into the people and landscape of Michigan. * Period: 1831. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. “THE GERMAN IMAGE OF CINCINNATI BEFORE 1830.” Queen City Heritage 1984 42(3): 31-38. Abstract: Traces descriptions of Ohio and Cincinnati published by Germans before and during the first phase of German immigration to Cincinnati. The earliest reference, Gedanken eines Land-Geistlichen uber eine an dem Ohio-Fluss in Amerika entdeckte Juden-Kolonie [Thoughts of a country clergyman about a Jewish colony on the Ohio River in America] (1774), presented arguments about whether Jews had arrived in Ohio before Columbus discovered America. Descriptions became progressively less mythical and more realistic over time, and reliable literature must have affected German immigration to Ohio, although to what extent is unclear. * Period: 1774-1830. Knowlton, Edgar C., Jr. “PAUL-EMILE BOTTA, VISITOR TO HAWAI'I IN 1828.” Hawaiian Journal of History 1984 18: 13-38. Abstract: Introduces and translates "Observations sur les Habitans des Iles Sandwich," in which the Hawaiian people and culture are described by Paul-Emile Botta, a French naturalist and physician, and later a diplomat, who visited the islands for three months during 1828. * Period: 1828. Turner, Martha L. “LAFAYETTE'S TOUR OF GEORGIA: THE OBSERVATIONS OF AUGUSTE LEVASSEUR.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 1984 68(4): 558-568. Abstract: Describes the experiences of the Marquis de Lafayette when he visited Savannah, Augusta, Milledgeville, Macon, and the Creek Indian Agency, all in Georgia, 19 March-1 April 1825. The information was recorded in a journal by Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette's secretary. * Period: 1825. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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