An Annotated Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Finley Collection on the History and Romance of the Northwest |
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15 vols Alloüez American History Appleton P. C. Griffin Bibliography Black Hawk War Boggess says Bound in 34 Canada Carter says Cavelier Caxton Club Charlevoix Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colonial contains copies Cramoisy Critical History Discovery and Exploration documents Edition limited English edition English translation expedition Finley Collection French French's Historical Collections Gravier Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard Hennepin Henri de Tonti History of Illinois Hontan Illinois Country Illinois History Indian Iowa Jesuit Relations Joliet journal Journey Joutel Kellogg's Early Narratives Knox College l'Amérique Septentrionale Lake letter Library London Louis Marquette Memoir Michigan Mississippi Valley Missouri Montreal Narrative and Critical Nicolet North America Northwest Notes Nouvelle France Ohio Paris Parkman Perrot preceding catalogue publication published Quebec reprint Reuben Gold Thwaites River Salle Samuel de Champlain Second edition second series Settlement Shea Sketch Stikeman Territory Thévenot Thwaites tion Tonti Travels volumes Voyages West Winsor Winsor's Narrative Wisconsin York
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Page 12 - The Wild North Land; the Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America. Demy 8vo, cloth, with numerous Woodcuts and a Map, 4th Edition, iSs.
Page 33 - A history of travel in America, showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent...
Page 61 - D'Iberville's colony in Louisiana. See "Relation de Voyage en 1700 depuis le Ilinois jusqu'a 1'embouchure du Mississipi," New York, 1859 (Shea's Cramoisy Press). The "Relation de la Mississipi en 1700, par MM. de Montigny, De St. Cosme et Thaumur de la Source...
Page 56 - Tonty," is printed in its integrity in Margry' s " Relations et Mdmoires in6dits," pp. 1-36, Paris, 1867. A translation of it is included in French's " Historical Collections," part i., pp. 52-83, and also in Falconer's "Mississippi,
Page 19 - Pages from the Early History of the West and Northwest. Embracing reminiscences and incidents of settlement and growth, and sketches of the material and religious progress, of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, with especial reference to the history of Methodism (Cincinnati, 1868).
Page 40 - The duplicate letters, the fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents relating to transactions at the negotiation of Ghent. Collected and published by John Quincy Adams, one of the commissioners of the United States at that negotiation.
Page 53 - Verreau in his edition of GallineVs journal, also refute Margry. Colonel Whittlesey's tract, forming No. 38 of the Western Reserve Historical Society's publications, entitled " Discovery of the Ohio by La Salle, 1669-70," is an inquiry upon the subject. Margry presents his arguments in full, in articles upon " Les Normands dans les vallees de 1'Ohio et du Mississippi," published in the Journal general de t Instruction publique, Paris, 1862.
Page 22 - History of Illinois from its First Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time.
Page 55 - Collections, second series, pp. 17-27, New York, 1875. La Salle's letter, written at the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, printed in Margry, vol. ii., pp. 164-180, a translation of which is given in THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, vol. ii., pp. 619-622, describes the journey to the Missouri. The proces verbal of the act of taking possession at the Arkansas, March 13 and 14, 1682, in Margry, vol.
Page 33 - Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. By Maj. Samuel S. Forman. With a memoir and illustrative notes by Lyman C. Draper. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888.