——Travels in the central Portions of the Mississippi Valley: comprising Observations on its mineral Geography, internal Resources, and aboriginal Population. Performed under the Sanction of Government, in the Year 1821. New York: Collins & Hannay, 1825. 459 pp.
The writer descended the Wabash, the Ohio, and then ascended the Mississippi and the Illinois to Chicago. His descriptions of places, peoples and things are well written and are a chief historical source.
Schultz, Christian. Travels on an inland Voyage through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans; performed in the Years 1807 and 1808. New York: Isaac Riley, 1810. 2 vols. I., xviii.+206; II., 224 pp.
Has an interesting description of Illinois settlements.
Smith, William Henry, Editor. The St. Clair Papers. The Life and public Services of Arthur St. Clair ... with his Correspondence and other Papers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. 2 vols. I., viii.+609; II., 649 pp.
Much information concerning Illinois under the Ordinance of 1787. Criticisms: Nation, XXXIV., 383; New York Tribune, June 16, 1882.
Stories of the pioneer Mothers of Illinois. A collection of Manuscript Letters from the pioneer Women of the State, giving their early Experiences. Collected for the World's Columbian Exposition and afterward deposited in the Illinois State Historical Library.
Especially valuable for information on reasons for immigration and on methods of traveling.
Storrow, Samuel A. The North-West in 1817. In Wis. Hist. Coll., VI., pp. 154-87. Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers, 1872.
The narrative, which is in the form of a letter to Maj.-Gen. Brown, was first published in pamphlet form. The letter is dated Dec. 1, 1817. It deals chiefly with the country to the north of Illinois, but the author visited Chicago, was entertained at Fort Dearborn, and wrote of the desirability of an Illinois-Michigan canal.