Travels Between the Hudson and the Mississippi : 1851--1852 /
translated and edited by Norman H. Binger.
- Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1971.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; title; copyright; contents; preface; introduction; 1 from gotham to porkopolis; 2 cincinnati in diary entries; 3 a shaker town and a dunkard meeting; 4 a week in the black swamp; 5 the queen of the west again; 6 a visit to the backwoodsmen of east kentucky; 7 a river trip through the mississippi valley; 8 a visit to belleville and a word about the germans in america; 9 a winter journey from the mississippi to the niagara and back to the hudson; conclusion; editor's notes.
Moritz Busch, a German journalist, theologian, and participant in the Revolution of 1848, proved himself both an accurate observer and a sensitive interpreter of American life in the mid-nineteenth century. His charming and richly detailed account has been translated into English for the first time. Not only an outstanding travel account, it proves to be a lode of background material that will be valued by the general reader, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars. Busch was keenly interested in the working of American institutions --
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