TY - BOOK AU - Busch,Moritz AU - Binger,Norman H. TI - Travels Between the Hudson and the Mississippi: 1851--1852 SN - 9780813162348 AV - E166 .T738 1971 PY - 1971/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Electronic Books N1 - 1; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938680&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -