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A Journey through the West - Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Hardcover, 1)
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A Journey through the West - Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Hardcover, 1)
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In A Journey through the West, Thomas Rodney writes vividly about
flea-infested taverns, bad roads, drunken crew members, squatters,
Indians sodden berths, food from the wild and treacherous waters.
His is one of the most detailed early-nineteenth-century travel
accounts. Rodney, a Revolutionary War patriot and veteran, had been
active in Delaware politics and had served in the Continental
Congress. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as a
land commissioner and a territorial judge in the newly formed
Mississippi Territory. To assume his duties, Rodney and a small
party traveled overland from Delaware across the length of southern
Pennsylvania to Wheeling, (West) Virginia. From there, they boarded
their newly constructed boat on the Ohio River and rowed, sailed,
and drifted along the borders of (West) Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and Kentucky. Finally they left the clear rapids of the
Ohio and entered the muddy yet majestic Mississippi. They traveled
southwesterly into a vast, exotic wilderness valley. The western
shore of the Mississippi was still owned by Spain, and foreign
soldiers were spotted. Under pressure to meet Rodney's deadline for
arrival in Mississippi Territory, the travelers were grateful for
the Mississippi's fast current. Yet in the journey's last days they
were faced with adventures and with near disaster when their boat
struck a snag and partially sank. Rodney kept a precise journal and
sent letters to President Jefferson documenting his trek from the
settled East through the barely chartered paths of the western
wilderness. He hobnobbed with Meriwether Lewis, enjoyed the
hospitality of Harman Blennerhassett, and received a tour of
Cincinnati from Arthur St. Clair. Dwight Smith and Ray Swick have
compiled, edited and annotated Rodney's story to present it in
complete form for the first time. A Journey through the West, is
both a travel adventure and a colorful glimpse into the life of his
day.
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