The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide

The Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide
Author: Joseph Hutchins Colton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1854
Genre: Middle West
ISBN:

" ... Being an accurate and concise description of each state and territory ; and containing the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied with a large and minute map, exhibiting the township lines of the United States' surveys, the boundaries of counties, and the position of cities, villages and settlements, etc., etc.

A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 890
Release: 1968-11
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780226775791

The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Making the Heartland Quilt

Making the Heartland Quilt
Author: Douglas K. Meyer
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2000-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780809322893

"Basing his research on the 1850 United States manuscript schedules, Meyer dissects the geographical configurations of twenty-three native and ten foreign-born adult male immigrant groups who peopled Illinois."--BOOK JACKET.

Sixty Miles From Contentment

Sixty Miles From Contentment
Author: M. H. Dunlop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000311511

Sixty Miles from Contentment is a revitalization of a pulsating American scene in the nineteenth-century. Drawing on the work of travel writers from America's own East Coast and from fourteen other countries, it offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.