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Backwoods of Canada
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on *The Backwoods of Canada*, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush…
共同主題：Canada, Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel
Astoria
1811年，一批美國商人來到哥倫比亞河河口築起要塞，為紀念出資贊助的約翰·雅各·阿斯特，將它命名為阿斯特要塞。這座要塞當初被規劃成毛皮貿易帝國的先頭堡，豈料到1813年，這項創業計畫就以虧損收場，要塞也移交給了英國。
儘管存在時間短暫，阿斯特要塞卻為世人認識廣袤的西北地區作出了無可估量的貢獻：開拓貿易路線、記錄當地原住民部落的習俗、確立美國對西北海岸的領土主張，都是它留下的重要遺產。
阿斯特從未放棄過對這項事業的驕傲，始終篤信美國西部終有一日會成為影響國家政治走向的關鍵力量。為了佐證自己的看法，他請來當時美國最負盛名、備受尊崇的作家華盛頓·歐文，將阿斯特要塞的相關史料整理成流暢可讀的歷史作品。歐文接受了這項邀約，於1836年出版了《阿斯特里亞》。
從問世之初就連愛倫·坡都為這本書大加推崇，一直到今日，《阿斯特里亞》依然被視為生動迷人的歷史讀物，它質地堪比最優秀的傳奇故事，卻完全紮根於…
共同主題：Fourrures, Fur trade, Commerce, Description and travel
Our Old Home
Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.”
共同主題：Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Travel, History
The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A.
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
共同主題：Fur trade, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
California and Oregon trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
共同主題：Indians of North America, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and…
共同主題：Fourrures, Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel
Away in the wilderness
On a beautiful summer evening, not many years ago, a man was seen to ascend the side of a little mound or hillock, on the top of which he lingered to gaze upon the wild scenery that lay stretched out before him. The man wore the leathern coat and leggings of a North American hunter, or trapper, or backwoodsman; and well did he deserve all these titles, for Jasper Derry was known to his friends as…
共同主題：Fourrures, Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel