George William Featherstonhaugh

Excursion Through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico

With Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1844, this description of the American South documents its fascinating geography and its often harsh and violent society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781108032803
• ISBN-10: 110803280X
• Artikelnr.: 33783229

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Barnum's Hotel at Baltimore
2. Ascent of the first Alleghany Ridges
3. A Virginia hotel in the mountains
4. The celebrated White Sulphur Springs
5. State of society at Compulsion Row
6. The system of Alleghany Ridges caused by an upheaval from below, and the White Sulphur Springs a consequence of the movement
7. Paying beforehand as bad as not paying at all
8. Depart on foot across the mountains to Fincastle
9. Cause of some confusion in the designation of the Alleghany Ridges explained
10. A pleasant party in a stage coach
11. A Negro-driver in mourning for a great patriot
12. Indian practice of burning the underwood to enable the natives to pursue the game
13. Description of Nashville
14. The religious sect of the Campbellites
15. Leave Nashville
16. Leave Louisville, and take to the stage-coach again
17. A remarkable barrow
18. Purchase a waggon
19. Departure from St. Louis
20. Taplitt and Perry's lead mines
21. Mine la Motte
22. Big Black River.