1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, de-
scriptive of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's
New Discovery," etc.

Volume XIX

Ogden's Letters from the West, 1821-1823; Bullock's Journey
from New Orleans to New York, 1827; and Part I of
Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839

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COPYRIGHT 1905, BY

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY

CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX

PREFACE TO VOLUMES XIX AND XX. The Editor

I

LETTERS FROM THE WEST, Comprising a Tour through the Western

Country, and a residence of two Summers in the States of

Ohio and Kentucky: originally written in Letters to a Brother.

George W. Ogden.

SKETCH OF A JOURNEY through the Western States of North

America, from New Orleans, by the Mississippi, Ohio,

City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, to New York, in

1827. W. Bullock, F. L. S.

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COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES; or, The Journal of a Santa Fé Trader,

during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies,

and a Residence of nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico.

(Part I: Chapters i-xi of Vol. I of original.) Josiah Gregg.

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