Early Western Travels 1748–1846 Volume VIII Early Western Travels 1748–1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D. Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” “Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc. Volume VIII Buttrick’s Voyages, 1812–1819 Evans’s Pedestrious Tour, 1818 [Illustration: [Logo]] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1904 COPYRIGHT 1904, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED =The Lakeside Press= R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII PREFACE. _The Editor_ 9 I VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND DISCOVERIES. _Tilly Buttrick, Jr._ Author’s Prefatory Remarks 19 Text 21 II A PEDESTRIOUS TOUR, OF FOUR THOUSAND MILES, THROUGH THE WESTERN STATES AND TERRITORIES, during the Winter and Spring of 1818. Interspersed with Brief Reflections upon a great variety of Topics: Religious, Moral, Political, Sentimental, &c., &c. _Estwick Evans_ Copyright Notice, 1818 96 Copyright Notice, 1819 98 Author’s Preface 99 Text 101 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME VIII Facsimile of title-page to Buttrick’s Voyages 17 Portrait of Estwick Evans (frontispiece to his book) 94 Facsimile of title-page to Evans’s Tour 95 PREFACE TO VOLUME VIII