The author traveled through Illinois in 1796. His observations were acute and are more helpful than would be expected from a soldier of fortune. The New Orleans Picayune of March 18, 1901, has a valuable article on the journey of Collot and its purpose. See his Map of the Country of the Illinois, in pocket.
Columbian Centinel. Boston, June-December, 1790; 1791-1801; 1802-1829.
The issue for June 16, 1790, has a note on the current experiments with steamboats. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Croghan, George. Journal, 1765. In Thwaites, Early western Travels, I., 126-73. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904.
The Journal is of a trip to the West, and characterizes the early French settlers.
Cuming, Fortescue. Sketches of a Tour to the western Country,... commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807 and concluded in 1809. Pittsburg: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 12mo. 504 pp.
Describes Shawneetown and gives some information in regard to routes. Very slight, however, in respect to Illinois. Criticism: The Inter Ocean, August 3, 1904.
Cutler, Julia Perkins. Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler. Prepared from his Journals and Correspondence. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1890. 353 pp.
Cutler early settled in Ohio. This work gives good examples of the difficulties of travel, between 1795 and 1809, on some of the Alleghany routes frequented by emigrants to Illinois. The driving of western cattle to market is also described.
Cutler, William Parker, and Cutler, Julia Perkins. Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, [pg 218] LL. D. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888. 2 vols. 9 + 524; 495 PP.