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1876, Rusk County Texas: 1877, cheap homes for 10,000 families: Rusk County is one of the oldest settled counties in the state...
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1876
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Broadside
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Texas
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Account of a journey through north-eastern Texas, undertaken in 1849, for the purposes of emigration. Embodied in a report: to which are appended letters and verbal communications, from eminent individuals; lists of temperature; of prices of land, produce, and articles of merchandize... and the recently adopted constitution of Texas, with maps from the last authentic survey.
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1849
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Rare Book
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Texas; Louisiana
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Across the plains in "49"
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1910-1911
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Pamphlet
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California; Iowa; Wyoming
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Across the plains in ’65: a youngter’s journal from "Gotham" to "Pike’s Peak"
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1905
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Rare Book
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Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming
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Across the plains. My trip from Faribault, Minn., to Oregon, via, Saskatchewan route, British America - account of the country, our sufferings and trials, &c.
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1864
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Journal
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Minnesota; Oregon
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An address to the farmers of Great Britain…
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1822
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Rare Book
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Illinois
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The American settler's guide: a popular exposition of the public land system of the United States of America
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1882
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Pamphlet
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Annual Report of the Quartermaster General, of the operations of the quartermaster's department, for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June, 1850
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1851
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Rare Book
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Kansas; Nebraska; Wyoming; Idaho; Oregon; Texas; California; Pacific Northwest
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Appleton’s new and complete United States guide book for travellers: embracing the northern, eastern, southern, and western states, Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc. Illustrated with forty-five engraved maps
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1855
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Rare Book
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Missouri; Ohio; Michigan; Minnesota; Iowa; Wisconsin; Indiana; Louisiana; Arkansas; Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee; Kentucky; Georgia; Florida; North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia; West Virginia; Pennsylvania; New York; Canada; Maine; Vermont; Massachusetts; Connecticut; Rhode Island; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Maryland; Texas
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[Articles of agreement between Antoine Le Claire and George Davenport with six others founding a company to establish the town of Davenport, Iowa]
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23 Feb 1836
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Ephemera
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Iowa
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Autobiography of Henry W. Blodgett
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1906
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Rare Book
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Illinois; Michigan
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[Autograph letter signed from V. and J.P. Capron and E.W. and H. Chandler, addressed to John P. Capron of Marshfield, Vt.]
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1845
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Correspondence
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Iowa
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Albert M. Lea of Philadelphia]
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1836
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Correspondence
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to R.M. Sherman of San Francisco]
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1847
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Correspondence
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California
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to R.R. Livingston of Plattsmouth, Nebraska]
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1869
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Correspondence; Pamphlet
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Nebraska
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to William Kimball, of South Oxford, Massachusetts]
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1830
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Correspondence
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Illinois
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to the writer’s mother]
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18 Apr 1859
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Correspondence
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Montana
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[Autograph letters signed, addressed to various recipients]
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1849-1850
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Correspondence
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|
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[Autograph manuscript of a theatre program]
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1863
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Pamphlet; Ephemera
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Montana
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Bell County, Texas. 1876. 1877. A general invitation to worthy people
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1877
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Broadside
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Texas
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Beyond the West…
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1870
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; New Mexico; Arizona; Idaho; Oregon; Utah; Nevada; California; Montana; Nebraska; Colorado; Oklahoma
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A biographical sketch of the life of William B. Ide
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c.1880
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Rare Book
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California; Kentucky; Ohio; Illinois; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; Idaho; Utah; Nevada; Mexico
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A book for the married and single, the grave and the gay: and especially designed for steamboat passengers
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1850
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Rare Book
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Iowa; Ohio; Missouri
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[Business card] D. L. Payne, Oklahoma, President, Payne Oklahoma Colony Co. Indian Territory
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c.1860
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Ephemera
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Oklahoma
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California as it is and as it may be; or, A guide to the gold region
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1849
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Rare Book
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California
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California: a trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip...
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1850
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Rare Book; Journal
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Nebraska; Utah; California
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Californien – Das Neue Goldland
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1849
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Rare Book
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California
|
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Campaigning against the Sioux. Being extracts from a diary kept during one of the three expeditions participated in by the author against the Sioux, under General Alfred Sully in 1863-4-5...
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1906
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Pamphlet
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The Dakotas; Montana
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[Capital stock certificate - one share]
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1858
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Ephemera
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Nebraska
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Centennial history and directory of La Porte City, Blackhawk county, Iowa
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1876
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Pamphlet; Directory
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Iowa
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Certificate: McHenry County, Illinois
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15 Jan 1838
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Broadside
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Illinois
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The Chisholm trail; a history of the world’s greatest cattle trail, together with a description of the persons, a narrative of the events, and reminiscences associated with the same
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c.1936
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Rare Book
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Texas; Kansas; Oklahoma
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Choice farming lands in Iowa and Nebraska: 1,880,000 acres for sale by the Rail Road Land Companies of Iowa and Nebraska, in tracts to suit purchasers, at low prices, on credit or for cash
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1871
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Pamphlet
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Iowa; Nebraska
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Circular to the farmers, manufacturers and miners of Dakota Territory
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1877
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Broadside
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The Dakotas; Pennsylvania
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[Collection of letters and other documents originating with Charles G. Hinman, or his family and friends]
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1845-1905
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Correspondence; Ephemera
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New York; Arkansas; Nebraska
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Colorado County, Texas: its health, climate, soil, advantages and resources
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1877
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Pamphlet
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Texas
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Colorado: its resources, parks, and prospects as a new field for emigration; with an account of the Trenchara and Costilla estates, in the San Luis park
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1869
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Rare Book
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Colorado
|
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Commerce of the prairies, or, the journal of a Santa Fe trader: during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico, volume II
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1844
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Rare Book
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Mexico; New Mexico; Texas; Arkansas
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Conquering the wilderness, or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America
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1883
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Rare Book
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Kentucky; New Mexico; California
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Crossing the Plains; narratives of the scenes, incidents and adventures attending the overland journey of the Decatur and Rush county emigrants to the "far-off" Oregon in 1852. With an introductory chapter by Camilia T. Donnell, and a thrilling narrative of a Buffalo Hunt and Battle Royal with Mountain Wolves, by Sutherland McCoy.
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1896
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Rare Book
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Indiana; Oregon
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Daguerreotype portrait
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Photograph
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Minnesota
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A day with the Cow Column in 1843; recollections of my boyhood
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1934
|
Rare Book; Journal
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Oregon; Idaho
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Death valley in '49...
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1894
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Rare Book
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California; Michigan; Wisconsin; Ohio
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Descriptive pamphlet of Knox County, Nebraska
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1883
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Pamphlet
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Nebraska
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Directory of the city of Council Bluffs and emigrants' guide to the gold regions of the west
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1866
|
Rare Book; Directory
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Iowa; Nebraska
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The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucke…
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1784
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Rare Book
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Kentucky
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The dreadful sufferings and thrilling adventures of an overland party of emigrants to California…
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1850
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Pamphlet
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California; Mississippi; Kansas
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Early settlement and growth of Western Iowa; or, Reminiscences
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1906
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Rare Book
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Iowa; Ohio; Kansas; Nebraska; Missouri
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Echoes from Arcadia. The story of Central City, as told by one of "The Clan"
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1903
|
Rare Book
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Colorado
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Echoes of the Past
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1914
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Rare Book
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California; Nevada; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Ohio
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Eight hundred miles in an ambulance
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1889
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Rare Book; Journal
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Wyoming
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The emigrant's guide to California; giving a description of the overland route, from the Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, by the South Pass, to Sacramento City...
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1853
|
Rare Book
|
California
|
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The emigrant's guide to the United States of America...
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1818
|
Rare Book
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Canada; New York; Virginia; Ohio; Pennsylvania; North Carolina; South Carolina; Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia; Indiana; Louisiana; Mississippi; Alabama; Illinois; Michigan; Missouri
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The emigrant's guide, to Oregon and California
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1845
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Rare Book
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Oregon; California; Iowa; Canada
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The emigrants’ guide to California, containing every point of information for the emigrant, including routes, distances, water, grass: with a large map of routes, and profile of country, &c. with full directions for testing and assaying gold and other ores
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1849
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Pamphlet
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California; New Mexico; Kansas
|
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The emigrant’s guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon: giving the different overland and sea routes compiled from reliable authorities with a map of North America
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1850
|
Rare Book
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New Mexico; California; Oregon
|
|
Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858
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1920
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Diary; Journal
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California; New York
|
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Family memories
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1912
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Rare Book; Journal
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Illinois
|
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A frontier lady: recollections of the gold rush and early California
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1932
|
Rare Book
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California; Iowa
|
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Fruits of Mormonism, or A fair and candid statement of facts illustrative of Mormon principles, Mormon policy, and Mormon character, by more than forty eye-witnesses
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1851
|
Rare Book
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Utah
|
|
The garden of the world, or the great west
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1856
|
Rare Book
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Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Michigan; Wisconsin; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; Minnesota; Texas; New Mexico; Utah; Oregon; Washington; California
|
|
Geographical, geographical and statistical chart of Wisconsin and Iowa: designed especially for the use of emigrants and travellers
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1838
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Map; Broadside
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Wisconsin; Iowa
|
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George Frederick Augustus Ruxton papers
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c.1839-1948
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Correspondence; Broadside; Photograph
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Missouri; Mexico
|
|
Glimpses of Texas: its divisions, resources, development and prospects
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1871
|
Rare Book
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Texas
|
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The great west and Pacific coast
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c.1877
|
Rare Book
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The West; Pacific Northwest
|
|
Histoire de la Louisiane; volume I
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1758
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Rare Book
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Louisiana; New Mexico
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Histoire de la Louisiane; volume II
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1758
|
Rare Book
|
Louisiana
|
|
Histoire de la Louisiane; volume III
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1758
|
Rare Book
|
Louisiana
|
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History of Bloomington and Normal, in McLean County, Illinois
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1879
|
Rare Book
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Illinois
|
|
History of the Donner Party. A tragedy of the Sierras
|
1879
|
Rare Book
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California; Illinois; Nevada; Wyoming
|
|
History of Kansas and emigrant's guide
|
1855
|
Rare Book
|
Kansas
|
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The history of Leavenworth, the metropolis of Kansas, and the chief commercial center west of the Missouri River…
|
1880
|
Rare Book; Directory
|
Kansas
|
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A history of Stockton from its organization up to the present time, including a sketch of San Joaquin County; comprising a history of the government, politics, state of society, religion, Fire department, commerce, secret societies, art, science, manufactures, agriculture... within the past thirty years
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1880
|
Rare Book
|
California
|
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The history of Texas; or, The emigrant’s, farmer’s, and politician’s guide to the character, climate, soil and productions of that country: geographically arranged from personal observation and experience
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1836
|
Rare Book
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Texas; Mexico
|
|
Horn’s overland guide
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1852
|
Pamphlet; Map
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California; Iowa; Oregon
|
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How to go West: a guide to southern Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, California and the whole great West
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1872
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa; Nebraska; Kansas; California; Arizona; Colorado; New Mexico; Kansas; Oregon; Nevada; Utah
|
|
Idaho: six months in the new gold diggings. The emigrants guide overland. Itinerary of routes, features of the country, journal of residence, etc., etc.
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1864
|
Pamphlet
|
Idaho; Nebraska; Kansas
|
|
An important work on the North West. Wau-Bun, the "Early Day" in the North-West. By Mrs. John H. Kinzie, of Chicago. 1 vol. 8vo., 500 pages, with illustrations on stone. Price, $2.25.
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1856
|
Broadside; Poster
|
Illinois; Wisconsin
|
|
In camp and cabin: mining life and adventure, in California during 1850 and later
|
c.1901
|
Rare Book
|
California; Wisconsin; Mexico
|
|
Incidents and experience in Iowa from 1840 to 1844
|
1840-1844
|
Journal
|
Iowa
|
|
The Iowa Handbook
|
1857
|
Rare Book
|
Iowa
|
|
Iowa, the "great hunting ground" of the Indian, and the "beautiful land" of the white man: information for immigrants
|
1860
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa
|
|
James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881. The adventures of a trapper and covered wagon emigrant...
|
1928
|
Rare Book
|
California; Oregon; Missouri; Illinois; Wisconsin; Utah; Idaho; Wyoming; Nebraska; The Dakotas
|
|
John Lyle and Lyle Farm
|
1925
|
Rare Book
|
Oregon
|
|
Journal from Urbana [Ohio] to Louisiana
|
1811
|
Journal
|
Ohio; Louisiana
|
|
Journal of John Wood, as kept by him while traveling from Cincinnati to the gold diggings of California, in the spring and summer of 1850…
|
1852
|
Journal
|
California; Ohio
|
|
A journal of the overland route to California! and the gold mines
|
1851
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
California; Arizona; Ohio
|
|
Journal of overland travel kept by William Gregg McPherson
|
1937
|
Journal
|
Illinois; California
|
|
Journal of Samuel Rutherford Dundass...including his entire route to California, as a member of the Steubenville Company bound for San Francisco, in the year 1849
|
1857
|
Journal
|
California
|
|
Journal of the sufferings and hardships of Capt. Parker H. French’s overland expedition to California, which left New York city, May 13, 1850, and arrived at San Francisco, Dec. 14
|
1851
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
California; Texas
|
|
A journal of a tour from Boston to Savannah, thence to Havana, in the island of Cuba: with occasional notes during a short residence in each place, thence to New Orleans and several western cities...
|
1848
|
Journal
|
Massachusetts; Georgia; Ohio
|
|
Journal of travels from St. Josephs to Oregon
|
1850
|
Broadside
|
Illinois
|
|
Journal of travels from St. Josephs to Oregon, with observations of that country, together with some description of California, its agricultural interests, and a full description of its gold mines
|
1850
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
Oregon; California
|
|
Journal of a trip to California, by the overland route across the plains in 1850-51
|
1852
|
Journal
|
California
|
|
Kansas Pacific Railway: the best and shortest cattle trail from Texas.
|
1875
|
Pamphlet; Map
|
Texas; Kansas
|
|
Kanzas and Nebraska: the history, geographical and physical characteristics, and political position of those territories; an account of the emigrant aid companies, and directions to emigrants...
|
1854
|
Rare Book
|
Kansas; Nebraska; Missouri;
|
|
Last Chance for Cheap Homes!
|
1880
|
Broadside
|
Kansas; Oklahoma
|
|
The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide: being a table of distances...
|
1848
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa
|
|
Le Mexique et ses richesses. Guide des emigrants.
|
1862
|
Rare Book
|
Mexico
|
|
Left by the Indians: story of my life
|
c.1892
|
Pamphlet
|
Oregon; Washington; Wisconsin
|
|
Letter: New Orleans to Stephen Minor
|
06 Dec 1806
|
Correspondence
|
Louisiana
|
|
[Letterpaper] Sherman and Grayson County
|
1873
|
Pamphlet; Broadside
|
Texas
|
|
Letters: [California], to Edward [McDonnell], 1850 Oct. 13-Nov. 25.
|
13 Oct 1850 - 25 Nov 1850
|
Correspondence
|
California
|
|
The life and travels of Harriet Cline West. Reviewed and prepared for the press by James M. Hiatt
|
1910
|
Rare Book
|
Missouri; Kansas; Texas; Colorado
|
|
Life and travels, labors and writings
|
1913
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Missouri; Nebraska; Wyoming; California
|
|
Life sketches of a jayhawker of ’49, by L. Dow Stephens; actually told by himself in his own way.
|
1916
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa; California; Arizona; Canada
|
|
Map of the ceded part of Dakota Territory [cartographic material]: showing also portions of Minnesota, Iowa & Nebraska
|
1861
|
Map
|
The Dakotas; Iowa; Nebraska
|
|
Map of the gold regions of California, showing the routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn &c.
|
1849
|
Map
|
California; USA
|
|
Map of the Nez Perces and Salmon River gold mines in Washington Territory
|
1862
|
Pamphlet; Map
|
Washington; Oregon
|
|
Map to illustrate 'Horn’s overland guide'
|
1852
|
Map
|
California; Utah; New Mexico; Oregon; Nebraska
|
|
Map to illustrate Mr Kane's Travels in the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company
|
1859
|
Map
|
Canada; Oregon
|
|
Memorandum and diary of J. Clyman
|
1840-1841
|
Diary; Journal
|
|
|
Memorial for a normal settlement
|
1854
|
Broadside
|
Iowa
|
|
Memory pictures, an autobiography
|
1912
|
Rare Book
|
Missouri; California; Oregon
|
|
Merrick County
|
1870
|
Broadside
|
|
|
Midnight and noonday; or, Dark deeds unraveled, giving twenty years experience on the frontier...and incidents happening in and around Caldwell, Kansas, from 1871 until 1890
|
1890
|
Rare Book
|
Kansas
|
|
[Miniature portrait of George Frederick Augustus Ruxton]
|
c.1840
|
Painting
|
|
|
The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7
|
1857
|
Rare Book
|
Minnesota
|
|
Mormon way-bill, to the gold mines…
|
1851
|
Pamphlet
|
Utah; California
|
|
My life on the plains, or, Personal experiences with the Indians
|
1874
|
Rare Book
|
Missouri; Kansas; Arkansas; Oklahoma
|
|
Narative [sic] of Geo. J. Kellogg from 1849 to 1915: and some history of Wisconsin since 1835
|
1914
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
Wisconsin; Illinois; Iowa; Nebraska; Colorado; Nevada; California
|
|
Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer
|
1838
|
Pamphlet
|
Texas; Louisiana
|
|
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the pioneer west, 1819
|
1915
|
Pamphlet
|
Illinois; Ohio; Kentucky; Indiana; Pennsylvania
|
|
Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement on the pacific
|
1854
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Oregon; Canada
|
|
The national wagon road guide, from St. Joseph and Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, via South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, to California...
|
1858
|
Pamphlet
|
California; Iowa
|
|
The Negro trail blazers of California…
|
1919
|
Rare Book
|
California
|
|
New England Colony of Iowa! This colony, consisting of persons from the New England states, is located in the southern part of Adair and the northeastern part of Adams Counties, in the town of Nevin…
|
1856
|
Poster
|
Iowa
|
|
[A new map of the United States upon which are delineated its vast works of internal communication, routes across the continent, showing also Canada and the island of Cuba]
|
1851
|
Map
|
USA; Canada; California; Oregon; New Mexico; Utah; Old Northwest
|
|
New route to California, and union of the Atlantic and Pacific, by road, railway or canal: with new homes for emigrants in the free colony of Costa Rica
|
c.1850
|
Pamphlet
|
California
|
|
Newhall's outline map of Iowa, exhibiting all the new counties, chief towns, roads, &C.
|
1848
|
Map
|
Iowa
|
|
Northern Iowa. By a pioneer. Containing valuable information for emigrants.
|
1858
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa
|
|
The northern route to Idaho: and the Pacific Ocean
|
1864
|
Broadside
|
Idaho; Missouri
|
|
Notes concerning the Kellogg's
|
1927
|
Rare Book
|
Michigan; Iowa; Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming; Nevada; California
|
|
The Octagon Plan of Settlement, originated by Henry S. Clubb...
|
185?
|
Broadside
|
|
|
Official map of the Territory of Arizona: with all the recent explorations
|
c.1864
|
Map
|
Arizona
|
|
Official report of the Owyhee reconnoissance, made by Lieut. Colonel C.S. Drew, 1st Oregon Cavalry, in the summer of 1864, pursuant to the orders of Brigadier George Wright, commanding Dept. of the Pacific
|
1865
|
Pamphlet
|
Oregon
|
|
Oklahoma Colony!
|
1883
|
Broadside; Ephemera
|
Oklahoma
|
|
Oklahoma! Politically and topographically described. History and guide to the Indian Territory. Biographical sketches of Capt. David L. Payne, W. L. Couch, WM. H. Osborn, and others
|
1885
|
Rare Book
|
Oklahoma
|
|
On to Oklahoma!
|
1883
|
Broadside; Ephemera
|
Oklahoma
|
|
Oregon as it is; its present and future...
|
1873
|
Pamphlet
|
Oregon
|
|
Oregon country: a circular to the citizens of the U. States.
|
1831
|
Broadside
|
Oregon
|
|
Oregon; or, A short history of a long journey...
|
1833
|
Rare Book
|
Oregon
|
|
Outlines of history of the Territory of Dakota, and emigrant’s guide to the free lands of the Northwest. Accompanied with a new sectional map
|
1870
|
Pamphlet
|
The Dakotas
|
|
Overland journey
|
1849-1850
|
Journal
|
California; Colorado
|
|
Overland journey to California: journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the Golden West was reached
|
c.1932
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
California; Indiana; Nebraska; Wyoming; Missouri
|
|
Overland journey to Carson Valley, Utah; through Kansas, Nebraska and Utah; also return trip from San Francisco to Seneca Falls, via the Isthmus
|
1861
|
Pamphlet
|
Kansas; Nebraska; Utah; California
|
|
Overland route to California, description of the route, via council bluffs, Iowa
|
1852
|
Pamphlet
|
California; Iowa
|
|
The overland stage to California: personal reminiscences and authentic history of the great overland stage line and pony express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
|
1901
|
Rare Book
|
California; Kansas; Colorado
|
|
[Pass issued to Col. Livingston, 1st Regt., Neb. Vol. Cav., between Julesburg and Thompson’s Station]
|
1864
|
Correspondence; Ephemera
|
|
|
[Passport issued to George Ruxton for travel in Europe and Spain]
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25 Jun 1844
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Ephemera
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Pawnee Bill (Major Gordon W. Lillie): his experiences and adventures on the western plains; or, from the saddle of a "cowboy and ranger" to the chair of "Bank President"
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1902
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Rare Book
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Oklahoma
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Pen pictures of early western days
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c.1908
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Rare Book
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Iowa; California
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The petition of B.F. Dowell and others, asking for pay for two companies of Oregon volunteers, and their expenses, called into service in 1854
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1869
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Pamphlet
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Oregon
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Phelps’s Travellers’ guide through the United States; containing upwards of seven hundred rail-road, canal, and stage and steam boat routes, accompanied with a new map of the United States
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1849
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Rare Book; Directory
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[Photographic views of the region around Pike’s Peak, Colorado]
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c.1888
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Photograph
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Colorado
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Pony tracks
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1895
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Rare Book
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The Dakotas; Mexico
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Prairie farming in America: with notes by the way on Canada and the United States
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1859
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Rare Book
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Ohio; Minnesota; Kentucky; Michigan; Canada; Old Northwest
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"A pretty fair view of the eliphent"…
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1960
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Correspondence; Journal; Pamphlet
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Illinois; California
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Proceedings of the Johnson County Old Settlers Association
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1866-1897
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Pamphlet
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Iowa
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Projet d’etablissement sur la partie espagnole des Illinois
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c.1771
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Broadside; Ephemera
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Illinois
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Rambles in the North West; across the prairies and in the passes of the Rocky Mountains...
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1885
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Pamphlet
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Canada
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A random historical sketch of Meeker County, Minnesota: from its first settlement to July 4th, 1876... with an accurate map by Henry L. Smith
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1877
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Rare Book
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Minnesota
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Recollections of a California pioneer
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1917
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Rare Book
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California; Canada; Wisconsin; Arizona
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Recollections of David Smith
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c.1915
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Pamphlet; Diary
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Illinois
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Recollections of my boyhood
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1914
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Rare Book
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Oregon; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Washington
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Reid’s tramp, or, A journal of the incidents of ten months travel through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, and California. Including topography, climate, soil, minerals, metals and inhabitants; with a notice of the great inter-oceanic rail road
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1858
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Journal; Rare Book
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Texas; New Mexico; Arizona; California
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Reise blandt de norske emigrannter i "De Forenede nordamerikanske fristater"
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1846
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Rare Book
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Report and map of the superintendent and engineer of the Smoky Hill Expedition, together with the table of distances
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1861
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Rare Book
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Kansas
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Report from a select committee of the House of Representatives, on the overland emigration route from Minnesota to British Oregon: with an appendix
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1858
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Pamphlet
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Minnesota; Canada; Oregon
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Report of the first-[fourth] reunion of the Tri-State Old Settlers’ Association, of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa
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1884-1887
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Rare Book
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Illinois; Missouri; Iowa
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Report of the Secretary of the Interior: communicating reports upon the Pacific wagon roads constructed under the direction of that department
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1859
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Map
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Nebraska
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Report on the subject of the massacre at the Mountain Meadows, in Utah Territory, in September, 1857
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1860
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Pamphlet
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Utah
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Resources of Nebraska
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1869
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Pamphlet
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Nebraska
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The Russian settlement in California, Fort Ross
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1896
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Pamphlet
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California
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Sandfærdig beretning om Amerika: til oplysning og nytte for bonde og menigmand; forfattet af en norsk, som kom derover i juni maaned 1837
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1839
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Pamphlet
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Colorado; Mexico
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The Santa Fé trail to California, 1849-1852: the journal and drawings of H. M. T. Powell
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1931
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Rare Book; Journal
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California; Missouri; New Mexico
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A selection of visual material from the Newberry Library
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1843-1912
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Illustration; Front Cover; Painting; Drawing; Photograph
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The settler’s guide, containing a description of Buena Vista County, in which is the city of Storm Lake
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1872
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Pamphlet
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Iowa
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Skeleton map of the overland mail route to California
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1857
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Map
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California
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Sketch exhibiting the routes between Fort Laramie and the Great Salt Lake
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1858
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Map; Broadside
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Wyoming; Utah; The West
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Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7: from a point on Grande River (near which the road should cross,) to the Pimo Villages where he fell into and followed the route of Gen. Kearny, down the Gila River
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1848
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Map
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California; Arizona; New Mexico
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Sketches from America
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1870
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Rare Book
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Canada; Illinois; Iowa; Nebraska; Wyoming
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Sketches of the early settlement and present advantages of Princeton, including valuable statistics, etc.: also, a brief sketch of Bureau County, and a business directory
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1857
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Directory
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Illinois
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Sketches of a journey from Smithboro, Pa. to California and return. April 19, 1841-July 20, 1844.
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1876
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Journal; Diary
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Pennsylvania; Missouri; Illinois; New Mexico
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[Sketches of a journey from Smithboro, Pennsylvania to California and return]
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19 Jul 1841 - 20 Jul 1844
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Diary; Journal
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Pennsylvania; Missouri; Illinois; New Mexico; California
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The sod house; reminiscent, historical and biographical sketches featuring Nebraska pioneers, 1867-1897
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1930
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Rare Book
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Nebraska; Indiana
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Some pioneer recollections, being the autobiography of George Lathrop, one of the first to help in the opening of the West…
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1927
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; The Dakotas; California; Colorado; Montana; Oregon; Utah
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Stories of the Old Santa Fé Trail
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1881
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Rare Book
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Arkansas; Kansas; Mexico
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The story of my capture and escape during the Minnesota Indian massacre of 1862
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1904
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Pamphlet
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Minnesota
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Ten days on the plains
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1871
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Rare Book
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Nebraska; Kansas; Illinois; Iowa
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Thirty-fifth annual reunion of the Old Settlers of Johnson County
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22 Aug 1901
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Pamphlet
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Iowa
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Thirty-seventh annual reunion of the Old Settlers of Johnson County
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20 Aug 1903
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Pamphlet
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Iowa
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Thirty-sixth annual reunion of the Old Settlers of Johnson County
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21 Aug 1902
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Pamphlet
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Iowa
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This certifies that [space] has paid twenty dollars to the American Society for encouraging the settlement of the Oregon Territory...
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1831
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Ephemera; Broadside
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Oregon
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A thousand miles in a canoe, or, A canoe voyage from Denver, Colorado, to Leavenworth, Kansas: during the summer of 1867; a personal adventure by Dean Perceval
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1880
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Pamphlet
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Colorado; Kansas
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Threads of Alaskan gold
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c.1904
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Rare Book
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Alaska
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Three weeks in the gold mines, or, Adventures with the gold diggers of California in August, 1848: together with advice to emigrants, with full instructions upon the best method of getting there, living, expenses, etc., etc., and a complete description of the country
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1848
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Pamphlet
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California
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Thrilling narrative of the adventures, sufferings and starvation of Pike's Peak gold seekers on the plains of the west in the winter and spring of 1859. By one of the survivors. Whiteside County, Illinois, 1860.
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c.1890
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Rare Book
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Colorado; Kansas
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[Ticket] Payne's lecture on Oklahoma. Admit one
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1883
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Ephemera
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Oklahoma
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To our Oklahoma colonists. Those who wish a home in that beautiful country
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1882
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Broadside; Pamphlet
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Oklahoma
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To the Senators and members of the House of Representatives of Congress...
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c.1860
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Broadside
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Montana; Kansas
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To the settlers of the counties of Platte Buchanan and Holt…
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1844
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Broadside
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Nebraska
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To tax payers
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1872
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Broadside
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Iowa
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The travelers' guide across the Plains, upon the overland route to California…
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1852
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Pamphlet
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California; Missouri
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The traveler’s companion through the great interior. A guide for the road to California, by the south pass in the Rocky Mountains, and Sublett’s and Headpath’s cut offs...
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1854
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Pamphlet
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California
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Travellers guide to and through the state of Ohio
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1832
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Pamphlet
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Ohio; Virginia; Kentucky; Indiana
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Traveller’s guide: a map of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, extending from Pittsburgh to the Gulf of Mexico
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1844
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Map
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The traveller’s register, and river and road guide: containing a new and correct map of the rivers of the Mississippi valley: together with the stage, steamboat, canal and rail-road routes throughout the western and south western states, with the distances, in miles, from place to place
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1847
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Rare Book; Diary
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Ohio; Michigan; Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky
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Travels and experiences in America with army, and Indian reminiscences
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c.1890
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Journal; Diary
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Oklahoma; Kansas; Missouri; Canada
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A trip across the plains in the year 1849, with notes of a voyage to California, by way of Panama. Also, some spiritual songs
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1864
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Rare Book
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California
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A trip across the plains, and life in California
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1851
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Rare Book
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California; Ohio
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A trip to the states, by the way of the Yellowstone and Missouri…with a table of distances
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1867
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Pamphlet
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Missouri; Wyoming
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A true picture of emigration, or, fourteen years in the interior of North America
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1848
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Rare Book
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Illinois
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The Ute War: a history of the White River Massacre and the privations and hardships of the captive white women among the hostiles on Grand River
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1879
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Rare Book
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Colorado
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Valley of the upper Wabash, Indiana: with hints on its agricultural advantages, plan of a dwelling, estimates of cultivation, and notices of labor-saving machines
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1838
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Rare Book
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Indiana; Illinois
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[Wagon master’s train book of Edward Boulware for three trips in June, July, and August 1865, from Nebraska City to Fort Kearney or Fort MacPherson]
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1865
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Journal
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Nebraska
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Wagon road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the superintendent of the wagon road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River
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1858
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Pamphlet; Journal
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Texas; Arizona; New Mexico; California
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Western portraiture and emigrants' guide: a description of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; with remarks on Minnesota, and other territories
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1852
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Rare Book
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Wisconsin; Illinois; Iowa
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A western tour: in a series of letters written during a journey through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and into the states of Illinois and Kentucky: giving an account of the soil, face of the country, antiquities and natural curiosities etc
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1819
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Correspondence; Journal
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Pennsylvania; Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Kentucky
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A winter in the United States
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1868
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Journal
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