Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: 1800-1899

In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. This book collects the travel diaries of James L. Sims, George L. Seymour, and Benjamin J.K. Anderson, who explored the territory that is now Liberia and Guinea Between 1858 and 1874.

Includes descriptions of travels in New Orleans.

The North American expedition of German naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1832-34 was the first scientific exploration of the Missouri River's upper reaches since the epic journey of Lewis and Clark.

Firsthand account of Gen. Crook's Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Mackenzie's resounding destruction of Dull Knife's forces on November 25, 1876.

A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom.

After spending time in Indiana, Titus ventured up Lake Huron and Lake Superior into the regions of the new State of Michigan and on into Wisconsin Territory.

In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the United States government.

Chronicle of the daily lives and personal struggles of Great Plains homesteaders, told in their own voices through many never-before-published letters, diaries, and photographs.

Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. This edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, "the weeping one" as the Indians remembered her.

Narrative of the Black Hills War, 1876-1877.