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3 volumes (xx, 793, v pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography: volume 3, pages 738-791. |
| Contents |
Volume I. Life in the East -- 1. A Southern View of New York and New England, 1793 -- 2. The National Character of Americans, 1810 -- 3. Life and Manners in New England, 1812 -- 4. A Scientist Among the Shakers, 1819 -- 5. A Resolute Woman Bbserves the Atlantic Cities, 1824-29 -- 6. The Pleasures of New York, 1828 -- 7. The Greaat Water Highway Through New York State, 1829 -- 8. Reflections on Education and the Arts, 1834 -- 9. A Western Breeze Blows over the Cities of the Plain, 1824 -- 10. The Pennsylvania Highway to the West, 1835 -- 11. In America All Women Are Ladies, 1835 -- 12. The Metropolis, 1837 -- 13. A Georgia Planter Among the Yankees, 1845 -- 14. A Charlestonian in Babylon, 1852 -- Volume II. The Cotton Kingdom -- 15. A Boston Brahmin Dines with the Virginia Democracy, 1815 -- 16. The Creoles of Louisiana, 1812 -- 17. Slaves and Rivermen: Western Virginia, 1816 -- 18. A New England Poet in Virginia and Kentucky, 1818 -- 19. Sunday Observations on Southern Life, 1818-29 -- 20. A Yankee Falls in Love with the South, 1835 -- 21. Sensible Reflections on Southern Society, 1852-58 -- 22. The Pleasures of Southern Society, 1856 -- 23. An Adverse View of Slavery, 1859 -- 24. General Sherman Destroys A Civilization, 1864 -- 25. Gone with the Wind: The South After Appomattox, 1865 -- Volume III. The frontier moves west, the Valley of Democracy -- 26. Religious Ecstasy on the Frontier, 18204-05 -- 27. An Early View of the Missouri Country, 1810-11 -- 28. Connecticut's Canaan in the Western Reserve, 1821 -- 29. An Artist Among the Indians, 1832-39 -- 30. A Winter in the West, 1833-34 -- 31. A Roving Reporter on the Frontier, 1837 -- 32. "We Air and Almighty People": The Old Northwest, 1848 -- 33. The American Spirit in the West, 1856 -- 34. The Mingling of West and South, 1856 -- 35. "It's All Go Ahead in this Country": Minnesota in 1856 -- 36. Hustle and Bustle in Chicago, 1871 -- Westward the Course of Empire -- 37. Outfitting A Santa Fe Expedition, 1844 -- 38. California on the Eve of Conquest, 1847 -- 39. California Exchanges Civilization for American, 1846-49 -- 40. Eldorado: California and the Forty-Niners, 1849 -- 41. An Editor Goes West, 1859 -- 42. The American Desert, 1865 -- 43. Northwest and Southwest, 1866 |
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United States -- Description and travel.
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United States. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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