A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

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John Mason Peck. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI

CHAPTER II

GENERAL VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI

(CONTINUED.)

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER III

CLIMATE

CHAPTER IV

CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND PURSUITS OF THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER V

PUBLIC LANDS

CHAPTER VI

ABORIGINES

CHAPTER VII

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER VIII

MICHIGAN

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XI

ILLINOIS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XII

MISSOURI

CHAPTER XIII

ARKANSAS, AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS

CHAPTER XIV

LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FOR THE WEST

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XV

ERRATA

GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,

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John Mason Peck

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The characteristics of these two rivers are each distinctly marked. The Missouri is turbid, violent in its motions, changing its currents; its navigation is interrupted or made difficult by snags, sawyers and planters, and it has many islands and sand-bars. Such is the character of the Mississippi below the mouth of the Missouri. But above its mouth, its waters are clear, its current gentle, while it is comparatively free from snags and sand-bars.

The Missouri, which we have shown to be the principal stream, rises in the Chippewan, or Rocky mountains in latitude 44° north, and longitude about 35° west from Washington city. It runs a northeast course till after it receives the Yellow Stone, when it reaches past the 48° of latitude, thence an east, then a south, and finally a southeastern course, until it meets the current of the Mississippi, 20 miles above St. Louis, and in latitude 38° 45' north. Besides numerous smaller streams, the Missouri receives the Yellow Stone and Platte, which of themselves, in any other part of the world, would be called large rivers, together with the Sioux, Kansau, Grand, Chariton, Osage, and Gasconade, all large and navigable rivers.

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