Catalog

containing narratives of the most important and interesting events in western history to which is appended historical and descriptive sketches of Oregon New Mexico Texas Minnesota Utah and California

including a description of upper Louisiana together with the states of Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Tennessee with the Illinois and western territories

a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West during the period of early American settlement

to which will be added a view of the states and territorial regions of our western empire embracing history statistics and geography and descriptions of the chief cities of the West

containing an account of the Great Lakes and all the lakes islands and rivers cataracts mountains minerals soil and vegetable productions of the Northwest regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds beasts reptiles insects and fishes peculiar to the country Together with a concise history of the genius manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi