diary

May 1846

June 12, 2009

“In the winter of 18 and 46 our neighbor got hold of Fremont’s History of California and began talking of moving to the New Country & brought the book to my husband to read & he was carried away with the idea too. I said O let us not go. Our neighbors, some of them [...]

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The American Frontier circa 1796

September 27, 2008

In 1796-1797, an English adventurer named Francis Baily braved the wilds of North America–a journey chronicled in Baily’s Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797 (Travels on the Western Waters). Having traveled from England to America, via the West Indies, Baily then traveled from Washington across the Allegheny [...]

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Louis Philippe’s Diary of Travels in America

August 30, 2008

In 1796, the man who would become the king of France began a three and a half year journey through Europe and America. Louis-Philippe, whose father had been guillotined, decided to see the world–and keep a diary of his travels, Diary of My Travels In America Louis-Philippe and his two younger brothers dined at Mount [...]

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