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Author Smith, Corinne Hosfeld, 1957-

Title Westward I go free : tracing Thoreau's last journey / Corinne Hosfeld Smith ; with a foreword by Laura Dassow Walls.

Imprint Winnipeg, Man. ; Sheffield, Vt. : Green Frigate Books, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  818.3 T391Bsmi 2012    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxvi, 435 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Laura Dassow Walls -- Preface -- The travelers and their route -- Concord to Worcester -- In Worcester -- Worcester to Albany -- Albany to Suspension Bridge -- Niagara Falls, Goat Island, and environs -- Niagara Falls to Detroit -- Detroit to Chicago -- In Chicago -- Chicago to Dunleith -- Dunleith to St. Paul -- Around St. Paul and Minneapolis -- The Lower Sioux Agency Excursion -- St. Paul to Prairie du Chien -- Prairie du Chien to Milwaukee -- Milwaukee to Mackinac Island -- Mackinac Island to Toronto -- Toronto to Ogdensburg -- Ogdensburg to Boston -- Boston to Concord -- Great circle sailing.
Summary Chronicles the 1861 "Journey West" made from Massachusetts to Minnesota by Henry David Thoreau and Horace Mann, Jr.
Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- United States.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Canada.
Mann, Horace, 1844-1868 -- Travel -- United States.
Mann, Horace, 1844-1868 -- Travel -- Canada.
Smith, Corinne Hosfeld, 1957- -- Travel -- United States.
Smith, Corinne Hosfeld, 1957- -- Travel -- Canada.
ISBN 9781927043301
1927043301
9789270433015
9270433013

 
    
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