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| Thematic Contents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| J. Hector St. | |
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| From Letters from an American Farmer (1782) | |
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| William Bartram (1739-1823) | |
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| From Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida | |
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| The Cherokee Country | |
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| The Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (1791) | |
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| Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) | |
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| An Explanation of the Map of Federal Lands (1787) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
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| Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory (1784) | |
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| Letter to John Breckenridge (1803) | |
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| John Filson (c. 1747-1788) | |
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| From The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke: And an Essay | |
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| Toward the Topography, and Natural History of That Important Country (1784) | |
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| The Adventures of Col. | |
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| George Rogers Clarke (1752-1818) | |
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| From The Conquest of the Illinois (1788) | |
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| Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) | |
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| The Trial of Mamachtaga (1785;1806;1808) | |
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| From Incidents of the Insurrection (1795) | |
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| Dr. John Knight (?-1838) | |
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| The Narrative of | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754?-1828?) | |
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| From The Emigrants (1793) | |
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| Selected Treaties between the United States and Native American Tribes | |
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| Treaty with the Cherokee (1791) | |
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| Treaty of Greenville (1795) | |
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| Treaty of | |
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| Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829) | |
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| Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) | |
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| From Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | |
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| Black Hawk (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak) (1767-1838) | |
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| From The Life of Black Hawk (1833) | |
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| Zadok Cramer (1773-1813) | |
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| From The Navigator (1814) | |
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| James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) | |
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| From The Backwoodsman (1818) | |
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| Charles Ball (1781-?) | |
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| From Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (1837) | |
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| Timothy Flint (1780-1840) | |
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| From Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi (1826) | |
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| The Indian Fighter (1830) | |
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| Nimrod Buckskin, Esq. (1832) | |
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| John Tanner (1780-1847) | |
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| From A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830) | |
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| Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784-1849) | |
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| From History of the Late War in the Western Country (1816) | |
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| John James Audubon (1785-1851) | |
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| The Prairie (1831) | |
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| Kentucky Sports (1831) | |
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| Colonel Boon (1831) | |
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| The Squatters of the Mississippi (1833) | |
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| Minor Native Voices | |
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| Tecumseh (1771-1813), Speech at Malden (1813) | |
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| Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841), Otagamiad (1827) | |
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| George W. Harkins (?-?), Farewell Letter to the American People (1832) | |
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| Daniel Drake (1785-1852) | |
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| Remarks on the Importance of Promoting Literary and Social Concert in the Valley of the Mississippi (1833) | |
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| Discourse on the History, Character, and Prospects of the West (1834) | |
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| Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786-1871) | |
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| From Views of Louisiana (1814) | |
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| Lydia B. Bacon (1786-1853) | |
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| From Biography of | |
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| David Crockett (1786-1836) | |
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| From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834) | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | |
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| From The Prairie (1827) | |
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| Daniel Bryan (c. 1790-1866) | |
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| From The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1813) | |
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