Crèvecoeur's eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York /
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813,
Crèvecoeur's eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York / translated & edited by Percy G. Adams. - 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Includes index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I: A Trip up the Hudson; II: Colonel Woodhull of Schunnemunk Valley; III: A Tour of the Chief Ironworks of New York; IV: In the Backwoods of Pennsylvania; V: In the Backwoods of Pennsylvania; VI: Lost on a Bee Hunt in Bedford County; VII: The Bachelor Farmer of Cherry Valley; VIII: The Indian Council at Onondaga; IX: The Indian Council at Onondaga; X: A Winter among the Mohawks, or, The Story of Cattaw-Wassy; XI: Niagara in Winter; XII: Agouehghon, the Coohassa-Onas of Niagara; XIII: Two Indian Tales. XIV: Wabemat's Reward, or, Why the First Beaver Was MadeXV: The Use Made of Salt in America, and, The Mountain Pasture Lands; APPENDIX: The Contents of the Voyage; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecouer, long regarded as a chief figure in American letters of the Revolutionary period, is remembered as the author of Letters from an American Farmer and the posthumous Sketches of Eighteenth Century of America, but his last and most ambitious work has been almost entirely neglected. Published in France as Le Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans d'état de New York, Crèvecouer's last book was never popular and has not heretofore appeared in English. Yet the Voyage has much to add to Crèvecouer's picture of eighteenth-century America, and to our own picture of.
9780813161990 (e-book) 0813161991 (e-book)
22573/ctt1299d8q JSTOR
Indians of North America--Early works to 1800.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
HISTORY--State & Local--Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)--United States
HISTORY--State & Local--New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)--United States
TRAVEL--Essays & Travelogues.
Indians of North America.
Travel.
Pennsylvania--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
New York (State)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Pennsylvanie--Descriptions et voyages--Ouvrages avant 1800.
New York (État)--Descriptions et voyages--Ouvrages avant 1800.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Electronic books.
Early works.
F153 / .C923 1961eb
917.48
Crèvecoeur's eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York / translated & edited by Percy G. Adams. - 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Includes index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I: A Trip up the Hudson; II: Colonel Woodhull of Schunnemunk Valley; III: A Tour of the Chief Ironworks of New York; IV: In the Backwoods of Pennsylvania; V: In the Backwoods of Pennsylvania; VI: Lost on a Bee Hunt in Bedford County; VII: The Bachelor Farmer of Cherry Valley; VIII: The Indian Council at Onondaga; IX: The Indian Council at Onondaga; X: A Winter among the Mohawks, or, The Story of Cattaw-Wassy; XI: Niagara in Winter; XII: Agouehghon, the Coohassa-Onas of Niagara; XIII: Two Indian Tales. XIV: Wabemat's Reward, or, Why the First Beaver Was MadeXV: The Use Made of Salt in America, and, The Mountain Pasture Lands; APPENDIX: The Contents of the Voyage; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecouer, long regarded as a chief figure in American letters of the Revolutionary period, is remembered as the author of Letters from an American Farmer and the posthumous Sketches of Eighteenth Century of America, but his last and most ambitious work has been almost entirely neglected. Published in France as Le Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans d'état de New York, Crèvecouer's last book was never popular and has not heretofore appeared in English. Yet the Voyage has much to add to Crèvecouer's picture of eighteenth-century America, and to our own picture of.
9780813161990 (e-book) 0813161991 (e-book)
22573/ctt1299d8q JSTOR
Indians of North America--Early works to 1800.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
HISTORY--State & Local--Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)--United States
HISTORY--State & Local--New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)--United States
TRAVEL--Essays & Travelogues.
Indians of North America.
Travel.
Pennsylvania--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
New York (State)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Pennsylvanie--Descriptions et voyages--Ouvrages avant 1800.
New York (État)--Descriptions et voyages--Ouvrages avant 1800.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Electronic books.
Early works.
F153 / .C923 1961eb
917.48