_Travels._ J. Carver’s _Travels through the Interior Parts of North
America in 1766, 1767, 1768_; I. Weld’s _Travels, 1795–1797_; J.
Harriott’s _Struggles through Life_, etc., 1796, ii, 97–149; Sutcliff’s
_Travels, 1804, 1805, 1806_; John Melish’s _Travels in the United
States in 1806 and 1807 and 1809, 1810, 1811_ (2 vols.); Schultz’
_Travels on an Inland Voyage_, 1807 and 1808; F. Hall’s _Travels in
1816 and 1817_; J. M. Duncan’s _Travels_, ii, 3–120; _Views of Society
and Manners in America, 1818–1820_, pp. 125–181; H. R. Schoolcraft’s
_Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest in 1820_, which
gives an official account of the Cass expedition; William Dalton’s
_Travels_, 1821; P. Stansbury’s _Pedestrian Tour in 1821_, giving an
account of a trip from Albany to Niagara; C. H. Wilson’s _The Wanderer
in America_, 1823; T. L. McKenney’s _Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes_,
which is very valuable; Basil Hall’s _Travels in North America in 1827
and 1828_, treating in vol. i of this region; Anne Royall’s _Black
Book_, vol. i; John Fowler’s _Journal of a Tour in the State of New
York in 1830–1831_. We come now to a set of travels which tell of
the western lakes in particular and give a picture of their towns:
_A Winter in the West, by a New Yorker_ (2 vols.), 1835; _Life on
the Lakes_, telling of a Lake Superior trip in 1836 by the author of
“Legends of a Log Cabin”; Bela Hubbard’s _Memorials of Half a Century_,
also of a voyage to Lake Superior. J. L. Peyton’s _Over the Alleghanies
and Across the Prairies_, 1848, and Captain Mackinnon’s _Atlantic and
Trans-Atlantic Sketches_, i, 141–233, give vivid pictures of lake
travel. Lillian Foster was in Chicago in 1860, and tells in _Wayside
Glimpses_, pp. 200–224, her impressions of Douglas and the political
situation. Margaret Fuller spent a _Summer on the Lakes in 1843_;
Charles Dickens went to Niagara, which he describes in his _American
Notes_, 1842, and Harriet Martineau wrote a _Retrospect of Western
Travel_ (3 vols.), 1838, in which she devotes seventy pages of the
first volume to a trip from Albany to Niagara. Two accounts of travel
in Minnesota are E. S. Seymour’s _Sketches of Minnesota_, 1850, and
C. C. Andrews’ _Minnesota and Dacotah_, 1857.
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