After the War of 1812, British travelers, intensely curious about the United States, poured across the Atlantic. Hundreds published their impressions in lively, quarrelsome books that infuriated and enchanted Americans and Britons alike. Most of these volumes have been out of print for a century or more. Here Roger Haydon brings together forty-two excerpts from one generation of these travelers' accounts, between 1815 and 1845, when New York State was a microcosm of the country. In his introduction and prefaces to each selection he describes the kinds of tourists who visited and how they traveled, assessing the general accuracy of their accounts, and provides pertinent background information.
The readings follow the period's most popular itinerary-up the Hudson Valley through Albany and its environs on to the spas and the Champlain Valley, across the state via the Erie Canal, the Genesee Valley, and the Finger Lakes to the Niagara Frontier, and down into the Southern Tier-to record in vivid detail the generation that saw New York State come to dominate the nation. In Upstate Travels, these travelers' voices are accessible again to entertain and inform all who are interested in New York history. Bibliography, index, and dozens of period illustrations are included.
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Roger M. Haydon is Executive Editor at Cornell University Press.
BRITISH VISITORS TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK STATE
Traveling in Early New York State
The Accuracy of Travelers' AccountsTHE HUDSON VALLEY
The Fishkill Area in 1817. Henry Bradshaw Fearon
Farming in Dutchess County, 1830. John Fowler
Mill and Harvest: Work in Dutchess County, 1841. William Thomson
High Society, 1836. Charles Augustus MurrayALBANY AND ITS ENVIRONS
Two Views of Albany, 1818 and 1819. William Dalton and John M. Duncan
Electing a Governor, 1824. I. Finch
Female Education in the 1830s. Andrew Reed
The Fourth of July, 1838. James Silk Buckingham
Lebanon Springs and the Shakers in 1835. Andrew Bell
Through Schoharie and Delaware Counties in 1825. I. Finch
A Brief Trip to Otsego County in 1836. Charles Augustus MurrayTHE SPAS AND THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
A Northern Trip in the Winter of 1816. Francis Hall
Temperance in the Ballston Area, 1838. James Silk Buckingham
Two Views of Saratoga, 1820s and 1840s. Beaufoy and AlexanderMackay
Saratoga County in the Fall of 1828. James Stuart
Saratoga and Warren Counties in the Mid-1830s. Richard Weston
A Tourist Party at Lake George in the Mid-1830s. Harriet MartineauTHE ERIE CANAL
A Tour from Rochester to Utica in 1820. John HowisonThe Mohawk Valley
A Canal Journey in 1834. David Wilkie
Utica in 1840. Archibald Montgomery Maxwell
A Journey West of Utica in the Mid-1830s. Richard WestonOntario's Weather Shore
Jefferson County in 1843. James Edward Alexander
Oswego in the Early 184Os. Anonymous
An Immigrant Couple in Oswego County, 1828. Benjamin SmithThe Lake Villages
Syracuse in 1838. James Silk Buckingham
Auburn Penitentiary in August 1833. Edward Strutt Abdy
The Penitentiary in 1839. George Combe
Villages of the Northern Finger Lakes. Francis Anne Kemble and Alexander MackayThe Genesee Valley
The Notorious Captain Hall Visits Rochester in 1827. BasilHall
Rochester in the Mid-1840s. William Brown
Through the Genesee Country in 1833. Patrick ShirreffTHE NIAGARA FRONTIER
Lockport in 1831. Henry Tudor
A Niagara Falls Tourist in the Early 1840s. Anonymous
Immigrants on the Shore of Lake Erie, 1831. James Edward AlexanderThree Views of Buffalo
Grand Island and Buffalo in 1838. James Silk Buckingham
Entering Buffalo in August 1830. John Fowler
Military Buffalo in the Early 184Os. James Edward AlexanderTHE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES AND SOUTHERN TIER
Friends in Cattaraugus County, 1819. Emmanuel Howitt
From Buffalo to Elmira in 1816. Francis Hall
Ithaca in 1828. James Stuart
A Tour of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in 1832. Edward Thomas Coke
Scipio to Binghamton in 1819. William DaltonBibliography
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