Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

4-5-2013

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This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 945. Letter, 10 February 1852, written by Samuel C. Allison to his mother. He details his river trip, from Cincinnati past the falls at Louisville to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, to Chestnut Bluffs (Dyer County), Tennessee. He is evidently in a small boat and is beset by trials encountered in river travel, including cold weather and ice.

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United States History

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