Library Record
Metadata
Author |
Colton, Joseph Hutchins, 1800-1893. |
Title |
The western tourist and emigrant's guide, with a compendious gazetteer of the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and the territories of Wisconsin, and Iowa; being an accurate and concise description of each state, territory and county, and an alphabetical arrangement of every city, town, post village or hamlet ... |
Place of Publication |
New York : |
Publisher |
J.H. Colton, |
Date of Publication |
1839. |
Physical Description |
vi, [7]-180 p. |
Language |
English |
Summary |
The western tourist and emigrant's guide begins with a general view of the St.Lawrence and Mississippi valleys and a description of how the public lands were surveyed and sold. The book contains a chapters on each of the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri and the Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa including a general description of its geography and government and a brief description of each county and a table of cities, town and villages. Wisconsin p. 165-169. Pasted to the back cover is a large, folded colored map of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa showing the township lines of the United States surveys, location of cities, towns, villages, post hamlets, canals, rail and state roads created by J. Calvin Smith with a table of steam boat routes and distances by water. Also includes tables of principal stage routes in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri and the Ohio Canal. |
Subjects |
Emigration & immigration Frontier & pioneer life Transcontinental journeys Transportation |
Places1 |
Northwest, Old |
Places2 |
Mississippi River Valley |
Local Search Terms |
Indians Climate Surveys Land Office Canals Stage coach Brown County (Wis.) Crawford County (Wis.) Dane County (Wis.) Dodge County (Wis.) Fond du Lac County (Wis.) Grant County (Wis.) Green County (Wis.) Iowa County (Wis.) Jefferson County (Wis.) Manitowoc County (Wis.) Milwaukee County (Wis.) Portage County (Wis.) Racine County (Wis.) Rock County (Wis.) Sheboygan County (Wis.) Walworth County (Wis.) Washington County (Wis.) Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Missouri Wisconsin Iowa |
Object Name |
Book |
Author added entry |
Smith, John Calvin. |
Call Number |
F597.C7 |
Copy Number |
1 |
Catalog ID Number |
L1969.002.0037 |