francis baily

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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