New Guide for Emigrants to the West: Containing Sketches of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, with the Territory of Wisconsin and the Adjacent Parts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from New Guide for Emigrants to the West: Containing Sketches of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, With the Territory of Wisconsin and the Adjacent Parts

The Chief source of information for those States that lie on the Mississippi, has been the personal observation of the author, - having explored most of the settlements in Mis souri and Illinois, and a portion of Indiana and Ohio, having Spent more than eighteen years here, and seen the two former States, from an incipient Territorial form of government, and a few scattered and detached settlements, arise to their present state of improvement, population, wealth and national importance. His next source of ia formation has been from personal acquaintance and corres pondence with many intelligent citizens of the States and Territories he describes. Reference has also been had to the works of Hall, Flint, Darby, Breckenridge, Beck, Long, Schoolcraft, Lewis and Clarke, Mitchell's and Tanner's Maps, Farmer's Map of Michigan, Turnbull's M ap of Ohio, Ohio Gazetteer, Indiana Gazetteer, Dr. Drake's writings, m'coy's Annual Register of Indian Affairs, Ellicott's Sur veys, and several periodicals. J. M. P.

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