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| Abstract: Compares Samuel Johnson's objective and empirical travel descriptions to the national prejudices and stereotypes of 17th-century grand touring. Johnson demanded an examination of data and eyewitness verification on his trip through western Scotland, and his resultant description is representative of 18th-century scientific travel accounts. * Period: 1773.
Kadia, Ante. “YUGOSLAV WRITERS ON ROMANIA.” East European Quarterly 1975 9(3): 331-344. Abstract: A compilation of the travel accounts of seven Yugoslav literary figures about visits to or impressions of Romania: Ivan Gundulic (1589-1638), Dosietej Obradovic (b. 1739), Franjo Racki (1828-94), Milos Crnjanski (b. 1893), Ivo Andric (b. 1892), Prezihov Voranc (1893-1950), and Stojan Vucicevic (b. 1941). * Period: 1600-1970's. Lasky, Herbert, ed. “NEW YORK STATE IN 1816: THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE PARISH.” New York History 1975 56(3): 265-297. Abstract: Contains George Parish's journal of his journey from Philadelphia to Ogdensburg, New York, 27 January-29 February 1816. Parish was a businessman who returned from Europe in 1815 to manage his brother's properties in upstate New York. The journal contains detailed observations of New York life and society. * Period: 1816. Martin, Ged, ed. “THE BRITISH AND KENTUCKY, 1786.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 1975 73(3): 288-290. Abstract: Letter reprinted from the London Daily Universal Register of 25 August 1786. Gives an account of a traveler's impressions of Kentucky in the 1780's, which viewed it as a rich land, capable of serving as a check on the spread of the United States. * Period: 1780's. Fretwell, Mark E. “DANIEL BOONE IN FLORIDA.” Escribano 1975 12(3): 100-111. Abstract: Reprints a proclamation by the Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief of East Florida announcing the issuing of land grants to settlers, and gives the account of a trip in 1764 which Daniel Boone made to explore the possibility of taking land in the area. * Period: 1764. Kanwar, H. I. S. “SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBERS OF THE TAJ MAHAL.” Islamic Culture [India] 1974 48(3): 159-175. Abstract: Discusses historical accounts of the subterranean chambers of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India from 1632 to the 20th century. * Period: 1632-20c. Baker, William J. “ENGLISH TRAVELERS AND THE IMAGE OF VERMONT IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.” Vermont History 1974 42(3): 204-213. Abstract: English visitors during the 19th century seldom visited Vermont. The tourists who did come were simply passing through, yet accounts by these travellers did much to instill in the English mind a portrait of the Vermonter as being different from other American types - a shrewd, hard-headed individualist. * Period: ca 1837-1900. Wilgus, A. Curtis. “SOUTH AMERICA OBSERVED IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY VISITORS FROM THE UNITED STATES.” Revista Interamericana [Puerto Rico] 1974 4(1): 57-72. Abstract: Twelve North American travel accounts from Wilgus's bibliography, Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (Scarecrow Press, 1973), demonstrate the usefulness of these sources for historians. These 19th-century travel accounts offer insights into South American politics, society, economics, and famous personalities. * Period: 19c. Doyle, James. “FROM CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO VANISHING FRONTIER: CANADA IN AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES, 1799-1899.” Canadian Review of American Studies [Canada] 1974 5(1): 26-35. Abstract: Analyzes books and magazine articles by noted American writers and visitors to Canada. American commentators first expressed the greatest interest in Canada's French populace, its governance, and its position in the British empire. By the 1890's writers stressed Canadian expansion on its western frontiers. * Period: 1799-1899. Burchell, Robert A. “THE LOSS OF A REPUTATION; OR, THE IMAGE OF CALIFORNIA IN BRITAIN BEFORE 1875.” California Historical Quarterly 1974 53(2): 115-130. Abstract: Before the gold rush period California enjoyed a reputation in Great Britain as a paradise which, though somewhat remote, offered a healthful climate and economic opportunities. Travelers' published narratives reported favorably on the harbor at San Francisco and the fertile soil. But with the gold rush came reports of a lawless society in which good people were outnumbered by vagrants, outlaws, and swindlers, and in which morality suffered in the face of the prevalent vice and crime. By 1857 California capitalists were attempting to counteract this negative image through dissemination of favorable propaganda and the formation of an Immigrant Aid Association. Unfortunately, the writings of travelers to California had created a new image of California which effectively counteracted the earlier favorable one. British citizens viewed California as a locale for vigilantes, criminals, and speculators; and British capitalists shied away from California as a place for possible investment. Not until the 1870's when California society could put forth a more stable image, did the negative view of California in Britain change. Thus, while publicity about California in the gold rush period could prove attractive in some areas, in Britain it had a largely negative effect. * Period: 1800-75. Burchell, Robert A. “THE LOSS OF A REPUTATION; OR, THE IMAGE OF CALIFORNIA IN BRITAIN BEFORE 1875.” California Historical Quarterly 1974 53(2): 115-130. Abstract: Before the gold rush period California enjoyed a reputation in Great Britain as a paradise which, though somewhat remote, offered a healthful climate and economic opportunities. Travelers' published narratives reported favorably on the harbor at San Francisco and the fertile soil. But with the gold rush came reports of a lawless society in which good people were outnumbered by vagrants, outlaws, and swindlers, and in which morality suffered in the face of the prevalent vice and crime. By 1857 California capitalists were attempting to counteract this negative image through dissemination of favorable propaganda and the formation of an Immigrant Aid Association. Unfortunately, the writings of travelers to California had created a new image of California which effectively counteracted the earlier favorable one. British citizens viewed California as a locale for vigilantes, criminals, and speculators; and British capitalists shied away from California as a place for possible investment. Not until the 1870's, when California society could put forth a more stable image, did the negative view of California in Britain change. Thus, while publicity about California in the gold rush period could prove attractive in some areas, in Britain it had a largely negative effect. * Period: 1800-75. Kaplanoff, Mark D., ed. “NOOTKA SOUND IN 1789: JOSEPH INGRAHAM'S ACCOUNT.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1974 65(4): 157-163. Abstract: Examines the history of European contact with Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Spanish first arrived in 1774, followed by James Cook in 1778. Others followed as a result of Cook's discovery of the profit to be had in the fur trade. Among these was the American ship, Columbia, with Joseph Ingraham as first mate. At the request of Don Esteban Jose Martinez, commander of the Spanish ship Princesa, Ingraham wrote an account in 1789 of what he had learned of the area and its inhabitants after having wintered on the island. Published here for the first time, it describes the flora and fauna of the area and the people, their amusements, customs, and religion. * Period: 1774-89. Dunmore, John. “A FRENCH ACCOUNT OF PORT PRASLIN, SOLOMON ISLANDS IN 1769.” Journal of Pacific History [Australia] 1974 9: 172-182. Abstract: Reproduces an account of Port Praslin, written by Second Lieutenant Jean Pottier de l'Horme, bound into a volume of the journals of the 1769 Pacific expedition of the St. Jean Baptiste, commanded by Jean-Francois de Surville. Discusses native culture, and the way the account compares to other descriptions and travel accounts of the Solomons. * Period: 1769. Gillam, Margaret. “CONCEPTS OF "INTER-TRIBAL RELATIONS" APPLIED TO THE KAMBA-MASAI BORDER.” Kenya Historical Review [Kenya] 1973 1(1): 33-43. Abstract: Asserts that the travel accounts of Europeans to Kenya in the 19th and early 20th centuries, describing relations between the Kamba and Masai peoples seem misguided when compared with the oral accounts of the tribes themselves. * Period: 1850-1920. Cothran, Kay L. “MAGAZINE TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF PINEY WOODS FOLKLIFE.” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 1973 39(3): 80-86. Abstract: Discusses the problem of using nonethnographic sources as data in evaluating 19th-century folklife, specifically the descriptions of behavior biased by lack of understanding of cultural differences. * Period: 19c. Stein, Gary C. “"AND THE STRIFE NEVER ENDS": INDIAN-WHITE HOSTILITY AS SEEN BY EUROPEAN TRAVELERS IN AMERICA, 1800-1860.” Ethnohistory 1973 20(2): 173-188. Abstract: Numerous European travelers to America from 1800-60 observed and discussed the conflicts between Indians and whites in the United States. Generally they wrote about the causes of these conflicts within the context of life in America. Some displayed sympathy for the Indians, others saw him as a hopeless savage, and nearly all predicted his rapid disappearance. * Period: 1800-60. Stein, Gary C. “INDIAN REMOVAL AS SEEN BY EUROPEAN TRAVELERS IN AMERICA.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 1973-1974 51(4): 399-410. Abstract: Critical comments of early 19th-century travellers, including Alexis de Tocqueville, concerning motives and methods of Indian removal. * Period: ca 1800-60. Shur, Leonid A. and Gibson, James R., trans. “RUSSIAN TRAVEL NOTES AND JOURNALS AS SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, 1800-1850.” California Historical Quarterly 1973 52(1): 37-63. Abstract: The Russian point of view has been neglected in the study of the California of the first half of the 19th century. A survey of Russian archival sources reveals an immense amount of hitherto unknown or little-used material, only a fraction of which is in English. Sources include correspondence, journals, travel notes, and unpublished reports by sailors, employees of the Russian American Company, natural scientists, and missionaries, and contain observations of the Spanish-Mexican political scene, mission life, the Indians, the towns, and other foreign visitors and settlers. Cites Russian archives plus a few important American archives. Originally published in a Russian journal in 1971. * Period: 1800-50. Tribble, Joseph L. “THE PARADISE OF THE IMAGINATION: THE JOURNEYS OF THE OREGON TRAIL.” New England Quarterly 1973 46(4): 523-542. * Period: 1846. Sampson, Francis A. “GLIMPSES OF OLD MISSOURI BY EXPLORERS AND TRAVELERS.” Missouri Historical Review 1973 68(1): 74-93. Abstract: Provides accounts of Missouri as seen by early explorers and travelers, including Baron Le Hontan, Dumont de Montigny, Auguste Chouteau, H. M. Brackenridge, the Lewis and Clark expedition, Zebulon M. Pike, Thomas Ashe, Christian Schultz, John Bradbury, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Stephen H. Long. Presented first as an address to the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1901 and reprinted from Missouri Historical Review, July 1907. * Period: 1539-1820. Bassett, Thomas Day Seymour. “SAMUEL CRAFTS AND HIS DUGOUT CANOE.” Vermont History 1973 41(4): 198-204. Abstract: Recounts Crafts' (1768-1853) six-month trip to inspect and perhaps invest in Yazoo lands, as recorded in his 1802 diary. Now lost, the diary was excerpted in the 1928 American Collector. F. A. Michaux, French botanist, recounts in his Travels (1805) meeting Crafts near Pittsburgh and boating with him from Wheeling to Limestone, Kentucky. * Period: 1802. Roth, Juliana. “TRAVEL JOURNALS AS A FOLKLIFE RESEARCH TOOL: IMPRESSIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS.” Pennsylvania Folklife 1972 21(4): 28-38. Abstract: Describes 18th-century travelers' attitudes towards the social customs of the Pennsylvania Germans as revealed in their journals. * Period: 1972. Coad, Oral S. “SOME TRAVELER'S-EYE VIEWS OF THE JERSEYMAN.” Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 1972 35(2): 41-66. Abstract: Provides a chronological list of travelers' accounts of the residents of the province and state of New Jersey. The work is based, in part, on the author's bibliography New Jersey in Travelers' Accounts 1524-1970 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972). Although contradictions exist, it is possible to sketch Jersey folk from the point of view of outsiders. * Period: 1524-1970. Wilgus, A. Curtis. “NINETEENTH CENTURY TRAVELERS: LOUIS AND ELIZABETH AGASSIZ.” Americas (Organization of American States) 1972 24(2): 25-32. Abstract: Short lives of natural scientist Louis Agassiz and his wife Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, who together co-authored a book about their travels, A Journey to Brazil (1868), about the topography, natural vegetation, and natives of the Amazon. * Period: 1850-1907. Pethybridge, Roger W. “THE MERITS OF VICTORIAN TRAVEL ACCOUNTS AS SOURCE MATERIALS ON RUSSIA.” Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas [West Germany] 1972 20(1): 10-23. Abstract: Presents an account of Victorian era travelers to Russia, whose descriptions of their adventures present excellent source materials about the life of the czarist Empire of that era. Divides the travelers into various categories: sightseers, politicians, those interested in natural sciences, businessmen, sportsmen and others. Cites many Victorian Englishmen and their works. * Period: 19c. Tappe, E. D. “THE SKENE FAMILY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE.” Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Europeennes [Romania] 1972 10(3): 581-584. Abstract: In 1830, James Henry Skene, an English officer on leave in Athens rescued Rhalou Rizo-Rangabe from a dog. Later the two married. James's diplomatic career took him to the Ionian Islands, Constantinople, Kayseri, Samos and Aleppo. He wrote several travel accounts which give valuable historical information. His parents came to Greece to retire, and his sister married Rhalou's brother. James's younger sister Felicia also contributed to literature on Southeastern Europe in both prose and poetry. James's daughter Zoe married William Thomson, who became archbishop of York in 1863. She was reputedly one of the great beauties of Victorian England. * Period: 19c. Posner, Russell M. “CALIFORNIA THROUGH ENGLISH EYES, 1858-1861.” Journal of the West 1972 11(4): 663-669. Abstract: Harvey Tower (1831-1870), a British Army veteran, visited California in 1858 and saw the usual tourist spots: gold mines, the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees, and the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine. He greatly enjoyed the night life in San Francisco. Sophia Cracroft (1816-1892) accompanied her aunt, Lady Jane Franklin (1792-1875), on a trip around the world. They visited California's gold mines, Mammoth Grove, and Warm Springs in the summer of 1861. Tower and Cracroft praised the scenery and crops of California but were critical of the towns and Yankee manners. * Period: 1858-61. Webb, Allie Bayne. “EARLY DAYS IN LOUISIANA: SKETCHES OF THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.” North Louisiana Historical Association Journal 1972 3(2): 35-38. Abstract: Discusses the writings of several individuals who worked and traveled in north Louisiana from the early 1600's to the mid-1800's. The individuals include Father du Poisson, an early French Jesuit; Dr. John Sibley, (1757-1837) an Indian agent to the Caddo Indians; Charles Caesar Robin, a French scientist who "came to North Louisiana in 1802;" Amelia Murray; Frederick Law Olmstead; and William Dunbar (1749-1810). While many "persons recorded impressions of Indians and slaves, only a few described the free Negroes, that colony of `Redbones' living at Isle Brevel near Natchitoches.". * Period: 1600's-1850's. Mueller, Bertha, transl. and Weiser, Frederick S., ed. “JOURNEY TO NORTH AMERICA - II.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 1972 45(1): 31-41. Abstract: Continued from a previous article (see abstract AHL 10:331). Concludes extracts from Theodore Fliedner's account of his mid-19th-century visit to America. Describes a camp meeting, a penitentiary, an orphanage, and poorhouses in Pennsylvania and Baltimore. * Period: 1849-51. Corrigan, Beatrice. “THREE ENGLISHWOMEN IN ITALY.” Queen's Quarterly [Canada] 1972 79(2): 147-158. Abstract: Describes the impressions of three of the first British women to record their experiences while travelling in Italy. The women discussed are: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi and Lady Morgan. Utilizes selections from their writings to show how opinions differed with the passage of time (1730-1830) and a changing cultural climate. * Period: 1730-1830. Gillies, Alexander. “EMILIE VON BERLEPSCH AND HER CALEDONIA.” Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society [Great Britain] 1972 15(1): 1-14. Abstract: Accounts the life of Emilie von Berlepsch, with particular attention to the time she spent in Scotland. Having met James Macdonald in Germany, she travelled to Scotland in 1799 with the intention of marrying him. For emotional and intellectual reasons, the marriage did not materialize, but they did tour the Highlands in 1800. Caledonia is her account of that trip and was published in four volumes in Hamburg between 1802-04. It is more than an ordinary travel book, being a personal document of considerable interest and containing useful references on agriculture, history, literature and the life and character of the Scots. The account becomes a vehicle for expressing romantic nostalgia. * Period: 1799-1804. DeTreville, Virginia E. “THE FIRST PRESIDENT VISITS AUGUSTA.” Richmond County History 1972 4(2): 39-53. Abstract: Sketches President George Washington's spring 1791 tour of the South, which included a visit to Augusta. Excerpts Washington's diary 17 May to 21 May 1791, describing the Georgia phase of his trip. * Period: 1790's. Hemperley, Marion R. “BENJAMIN HAWKINS' TRIP ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN GEORGIA, 1798.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 1972 56(3): 415-431. Abstract: Benjamin Hawkins was an Indian agent under President Washington. Describes Hawkins' journey through Creek and Cherokee towns in Georgia. Annotates the journey and correlates Hawkins' notes with modern geographical features. * Period: 1798. Pearson, W. H. “HAWKESWORTH'S ALTERATIONS.” Journal of Pacific History [Australia] 1972 7: 45-72. Abstract: Discusses John Hawkesworth's Voyages. It modified navigators' recorded descriptions of Pacific Islands communities and emphasized the enviable happiness of such societies. Collates for the first time Hawkesworth's passages on primitivism with the original sources, indicating which sections Hawkesworth modified and his literary, social, and patriotic motives for the alterations. * Period: 1750-72. Lindgren, W. H., III. “AGRICULTURAL PROPAGANDA IN LAWSON'S A NEW VOYAGE TO CAROLINA.” North Carolina Historical Review 1972 49(4): 333-344. Abstract: Discusses A New Voyage to Carolina, John Lawson's 1708 account. * Period: 1708. Doughty, Nanelia S. “BAYARD TAYLOR'S SECOND LOOK AT CALIFORNIA.” Western Review 1971 8(2): 51-55. Abstract: Chronicles author-poet Bayard Taylor's second visit to California in 1859 (10 years after his first look at the state); discusses his travels through the Mother Lode, northern California, and the San Francisco Bay area, and notes his reactions to changes in the state. * Period: 1859. Reagan, Hugh D. “JOURNEY TO TEXAS, 1854: THE DIARY OF ROBERT SEABORN JEMISON OF TALLADEGA.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 1971 33(3-4): 190-209. Abstract: On 1 April 1854, Robert Seaborn Jemison (1824-1868), Shadrach Mims Jemison, Carter Edmunds, and David Hamilton Remson left Talladega, Alabama, by stage to explore Texas. They traveled from Montgomery, Alabama, to Mobile, where they rode a steamer to New Orleans and Galveston. A riverboat took them to Houston. They traveled by stagecoach to Austin. Jemison describes the country around Austin as beautiful, but notes that transportation is expensive. From Austin, the company rode to Lockheart Cladwell County and San Antonio. From here they returned home by ship, by the route they came, arriving in New Orleans 24 May, the last entry in the diary. * Period: 1854. Lee, Fred L. “"THE WESTERN ADVENTURES OF WASHINGTON IRVING."“ Westport Historical Quarterly 1971 7(1): 12-18. * Period: 1820's-40's. Petersen, William J. “BIRDS ALONG THE MISSOURI.” Palimpsest 1971 52(11): 550-570. Abstract: Excerpts from John James Audubon's travel journal kept while voyaging up the Missouri River in 1843; Audubon studied and sketched native river birds. * Period: 1843. Simpson, George. “A JOURNEY TO SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA.” Alaska Journal 1971 1(1): 34-42. Abstract: Reprints from Sir George Simpson's A Narrative of a Journey Round the World During the Years 1841 and 1842 (London, 1847) the diary of the governor of the Northern Department of Hudson's Bay Company. Simpson's travels took him to Alaska to inspect the fur trading posts. Includes information about Hudson's Bay Company, the rival Russian American Company, the Indians of southeastern Alaska, the town of Sitka, and the geography of the area. * Period: 1841. Gibson, James R. “A RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PRIEST IN A MEXICAN CATHOLIC PARISH.” Pacific Historian 1971 15(2): 57-66. Abstract: Discusses the missionary career of Ioann Veniaminov [later, Metropolitan Innokentii] in Alaska, and reprints a travel diary of a trip from Alaska to California and back. * Period: 1823-33. Short, Julee. “IRVING'S EDEN: OKLAHOMA, 1832.” Journal of the West 1971 10(4): 700-712. Abstract: In 1832, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, newly appointed Indian Commissioner, invited three friends to accompany him to his post in eastern Oklahoma. The companions, Charles Joseph Latrobe, Count Albert-Alexandre Pourtales, and Washington Irving, each wrote an account of their adventures in the West. Irving's work has been criticized by literati and historians, but it is an exciting, straightforward narrative of the free and easy spirit of the West. * Period: 1832. Edson, Andrew S. “HOW NINETEENTH CENTURY TRAVELERS VIEWED MEMPHIS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.” West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 1970 24: 30-40. Abstract: Presents the views of river travelers: Americans, Frenchmen, Englishmen, and a Mexican. Some were favorably impressed with the city that towered above the Mississippi River from its location on Chickasaw Bluff; othere were disappointed. * Period: 1800-60. Smith, Duane A., ed. “PIKES PEAK FIFTY-NINER: THE DIARY OF E. A. BOWEN.” Colorado Magazine 1970 47(4): 269-311. Abstract: Describes the journey to the Colorado gold fields by Edwin A. Bowen (1831-1900), and provides a "straightforward narrative of his impressions and daily life." The entries from 23 February to 14 April 1859 relate the journey from LaSalle, Illinois, to St. Joseph, Missouri, by train and on to Denver, Colorado, by wagon. The diary illustrates several characteristics of the mining frontier, such as group effort, vigilante law, constant prospecting, land and claim trading, working the claims, and general disappointment for most miners. Bowen, a devout Baptist, did not work on the Sabbath, but remained in camp or attended religious services. The diary, now in the Huntington Library, covers the period from late February to early October 1859. * Period: 1859. Brodie, Fawn M. “SIR RICHARD F. BURTON: EXCEPTIONAL OBSERVER OF THE MORMON SCENE.” Utah Historical Quarterly 1970 38(4): 295-311. Abstract: Burton (1821-90) visited the United States in 1859, spending three months touring the East and South, then three weeks in Salt Lake City and on to the West, yet in his 600-page book he was concerned only with the Indians and the Mormons. Though he was considered a Renaissance man he did have special interests: sexual customs, the rituals of child birth, puberty, courtship, marriage, and death, and especially the relation of all these to religion. He was well received by Brigham Young and had the combination of insatiable curiosity, accurate observation, and non-judgmental detachment that made him a remarkably able and astute observer. Transcript of a historical address given to the Utah Valley Chapter of the Utah State Historical Society on 19 January 1970, reviewing in historical perspective Sir Richard Francis Burton's City of the Saints (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862). * Period: 1859. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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