Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Vol. 4, Cuming's Tour to the Western County (1807-1809)
Entry/Object ID
L1993.1.54D
Description
Early Western Travels 1748-1846. Volume 4 of 32. Cuming's Tour to the Western Country (1807-1809).
Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; a Voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip through the Mississippi Territory, and part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809. by Fortescue Cuming.
Cuming's started from Pittsburg in 1807 and made his way down the Ohio to Kentucky at Maysville. He makes a side trip overland through Kentucky to Lexington and Frankfort. From Maysville he proceeds on foot, stage, and horseback over the newly opened state road of Ohio, through Chillicothe, Lancaster, and Zanesville to Wheeling, then back to Pittsburg.
In 1808, he starts at Maysville and goes down the Ohio and Mississippi into arriving at Bayou Pierre and then takes a horseback tour of the Mississippi Territory penetrating as far as Baton Rouge returning to Bruinsbury.
377/Hardbound.
