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       John Mason Peck

      A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066192112

       INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER I.

       GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

       CHAPTER II.

       GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

       CHAPTER III.

       CLIMATE.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND PURSUITS OF THE PEOPLE.

       CHAPTER V.

       PUBLIC LANDS.

       CHAPTER VI.

       ABORIGINES.

       CHAPTER VII.

       WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       MICHIGAN.

       CHAPTER XI.

       ILLINOIS.

       CHAPTER XII.

       MISSOURI.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       ARKANSAS, AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FOR THE WEST.

       CHAPTER XV.

       ERRATA.

       GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,

CHAP. I
General View of the Valley of the Mississippi.
Extent—Subdivisions—Population—Physical Features—Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions—History—Prospective Increase of Population, 11
CHAP. II
General View, &c., Continued.
Productions, 32
CHAP. III
Climate.
Comparative View of the Climate with the Atlantic States—Diseases—Means of Preserving Health, 37
CHAP. IV
Character, Manners and Pursuits of the People.
Cotton and Sugar Planters—Farmers—Population of the large Towns and Cities—Frontier Class—Hunters and Trappers—Boatmen, 102
CHAP. V
Public Lands.
System of Surveys—Meridian and Base Lines—Townships—Diagram of a Township surveyed into Sections—Land Districts and Offices—Pre-emption Rights—Military and Bounty Lands—Taxes—Valuable Tracts of Country unsettled, 130
CHAP. VI
Aborigines.
Conjecture respecting their former Numbers and Condition—Present Number and State—Indian Territory appropriated as their Permanent Residence—Plan and Operations of the U. S. Government—Missionary Efforts and Stations—Monuments and Antiquities, 144
CHAP. VII
Western Pennsylvania.
Face of the Country—Soil, Agriculture and Internal Improvements—Chief Towns—Pittsburg—Coal—Sulphur and Hot Springs—Wheeling, 163
CHAP. VIII

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