Excerpt from The Renwick C. Hurry Collection of Rare New York Views: Americana and New York Views From the Collection of the Late John S. Pierson and Others The Mississippi at New Orleans; Village of Rochester; Ship ping Port on the Ohio in Kentucky; Backwoodsmen; Family in Georgia; Banks of the Missouri Falling ih; Steam Boat on the Mississippi, and other plates of the pioneer life in America, of which all traces are fast disappearing. 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.