"The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820" consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-18th to the early 19th century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Ky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts and pictorial images. The collection documents the travels of the first Europeans to enter the trans-Appalachian West, the maps tracing their explorations, their relations with Native Americans and their theories about the region's mounds and other ancient earthworks.
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