Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"It will be seen that camp-meetings first originated in the West; nor did they commence with the Methodists, but, upon a Sacramental occasion, among the Presbyterians... They were continued until they became general among the Methodists throughout the Uni
Description:
P. 219.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicting many native people doing various tasks, some carrying another man on a sedia gestatoria, some gathering food and tilling the land.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Americae pars decima ... Omnia nunc primum in lucem edita, atque in aes incisis inconibus
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, New England --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Virginia --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Name):
Hamor, Ralph, d. 1626. True discourse of the present estate of Virginia. Latin. 1618, Smith, John, 1580-1631. Description of the New England. Latin. 1618, and Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512