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Excursion through America

Title
Excursion through America / by Nicolaus Mohr ; edited by Ray Allen Billington ; translated by Lavern J. Rippley with the collaboration of Klaus Lanzinger.
Author
Mohr, Nicolaus, 1826-1886.
Publication
Chicago : Lakeside Press : R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1973.

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Additional Authors
  • Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981.
  • Rippley, La Vern J.
  • Lanzinger, Klaus.
Description
lxxvi, 398 pages : illustrations, folded map, portrait; 18 cm.
Series Statement
The Lakeside classics
Uniform Title
  • Streifzug durch den Nordwesten Amerikas. English
  • Lakeside classics ; v. 71.
Alternative Title
Streifzug durch den Nordwesten Amerikas.
Subject
  • Travel
  • United States > Description and travel
  • United States
Note
  • Translation of Ein Streifzug durch den Nordwesten Amerikas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The text and its editing -- Historical introduction -- Author's preface -- The invitation -- The journey begins -- The Atlantic crossing -- The arrival in New York -- From Niagara to Chicago -- A Minnesota interlude -- Through Dakota and Montana -- The Rocky Mountains and a visit with the Indians -- The last spike -- Lake Pend d'Oreille and the Columbia River -- Portland -- To Victoria and back by boat -- On the way home -- Yellowstone National Park -- Cities on the Mississippi: St. Paul and St. Louis -- Cities on the Ohio: Louisville and Cincinnati -- Cities of the East: Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington -- Baltimore back to New York -- The farewell banquet -- Epilogue: Nicolaus Mohr as a foreign observer of the United States / by Klaus Lanzinger.
LCCN
74155426
OCLC
  • ocm00822396
  • 822396
  • SCSB-113382
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library