James' River Guide : Containing Descriptions of all the Cities, Towns, and Principal Objects of Interest on the Navigable Waters of the Mississippi Valley . illustrated with forty-four maps

[Cumings, Samuel]

Published by Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 1856

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Lacks wrappers and title page. Dated by references in the text which indicate that the information in this work was updated regularly. Original paper backstrip reading "James' River Guide" is intact. [3]-128 pp., 44 full-page charts of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and one plate. 21 of the charts cover the Ohio River; 23 show the Mississippi. Descriptions of the Mississippi begin in northern Illinois and Iowa to the intersection with the Missouri River, though the maps only show as far north as St. Louis. The last pages of the text contain gazetter-type information for towns on the Muskingum, Scioto, Kentucky, Wabash, Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers which feed into the Ohio River, but there are no charts of those rivers. Similar information, without charts, is offered for the many rivers which feed into the Mississippi River. These include many rivers and streams of Texas, such as the Rio Grande and Colorado, but also the Trinity, Nueces, San Jacinto and other smaller waterways. This was a later issue of a long series of western river guides which began in the earliest years of the 19th century as Zadock Cramer's Navigator. A fine guide book, with wonderful descriptions of the towns along both rivers. Published by U. P. James. Howes C948.

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• Title: James' River Guide : Containing Descriptions of all the Cities, Towns, and Principal Objects of Interest on the Navigable Waters of the Mississippi Valley . illustrated with forty-four maps
• Publisher: Cincinnati, Cincinnati
• Publication Date: 1856
• Binding: Soft cover
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