The best early authority on the subject treated. Not very full in regard to Illinois. Predicts western state-making. KEATING, WILLIAM H. _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, __ &c., &c., performed in the Year 1823 ... compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Colhoun. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea_, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. I., xii. + 439; II., 459 pp. Same, _London: Whittaker_, 1825. Contains an extremely interesting and important description of Chicago and its vicinity, and in less detail, of northern Illinois. KINZIE, Mrs. JOHN H. (Juliette A. McGill Kinzie). _Wau-Bun, the __“__Early Day__”__ in the North-West._ New edition with an introduction and notes by Reuben Gold Thwaites. _Chicago: The Caxton Club_, 1901. xxvii. + 451 pp. This work, which first appeared in 1856, has the best account, not by an eye-witness, of the massacre at Fort Dearborn in 1812. Mrs. Helm gives this account. ——_Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some preceding Events. Chicago: Ellis & Fergus_, 1844. 34 pp. A valuable account, written by Mrs. Kinzie from the dictation of her mother-in-law, who was an eye-witness of the massacre. Incorporated almost verbatim in Mrs. Kinzie’s “Wau-Bun.” The edition of 1844 was the first, not the second, as stated in the Chicago Magazine, I., 103, and repeated by Dr. Thwaites. LAUSSAT, Count. _The military Title of Louisiana and the Territory of Illinois, dated New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1804, and signed by Count Laussat, Napoleon’s Ambassador. It is also the order to Gen. De Lassus to deliver the Territory over to Capt. Amos Stoddard, of the U. S. Artillery._ Original manuscript letter, in French, in the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Ill. LOOMIS, CHESTER A. _The Notes of a Journey to the Great West in 1825._ 28 unnumbered pages, six chapters. Printed without place, name of publisher, or date. The writer entered Illinois in the present Vermilion county, went south to the Wabash, west to Vandalia, then to Kaskaskia. His observations are acute and readable. Describes Vermilion county salines, Illinois farm products, pioneer homes, and the inconvenience attendant upon traveling on horseback. Bound with other pamphlets in the Champaign (Illinois) Public Library. ——_A Journey on Horseback through the Great West, in 1825. Visiting Alleghany Towns, Olean, Warren, Franklin, Pittsburg, New Lisbon, Elyria, Norfolk, Columbus, Zanesville, Vermilion, Kaskaskia, Vandalia, Sandusky, and many other places. Bath, N. Y.; Plaindealer Press._ 27 unnumbered pages. The writer was from Rushville, Ontario county, N. Y. Same as the preceding. In library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin. _McLean County Historical Society, Transactions of the._ Vol. II. _Bloomington, Ill.: Pantagraph Printing and Stationery Co._, 1903. 695 pages.