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A Fashionable Tour Through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi
Juliette Starr Dana
其他書名
The 1852 Journal of Juliette Starr Dana
出版Wayne State University Press, 2004
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / WomenBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / North AmericaHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturySocial Science / Women's StudiesTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN97808143320540814332056
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hhvyzpymFpcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1850s America it was extremely uncommon, if not unheard of, for a woman to travel without an escort for her own pleasure. Railroads did not yet reach the Mississippi, rapids barred ships from Lake Superior, and American Indians still inhabited the frontier. Traveling from New York City to Lake Superior's shores, the Mississippi River, and the newly created Minnesota Territory was most definitely not the ideal vacation - or was it? A Fashionable Tour through the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi is the complete daily journal written by Juliette Star Dana, a 35-year-old wife and mother, during her nine-week pleasure tour over three thousand miles of the United States in the summer of 1852. Traveling the frontier roads of rivers and lakes with only a female companion and her teenage son, Juliette sought the scenic water-falls and shorelines along with such man-made sights as copper and lead mines, factories, military posts, and a prison. Juliette chronicles these places and the people therein - American Indians, soldiers, lawyers, and politicians - with engrossing detail and also describes the journey's numerous hardships of accidents, vermin, sickness, and disease. This one-of-a