Table of Contents

BRITISH VISITORS TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK STATE Traveling in Early New York State The Accuracy of Travelers' Accounts THE 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 Murray ALBANY 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 Murray THE 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 Martineau THE ERIE CANAL A Tour from Rochester to Utica in 1820. John Howison The 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 Weston Ontario's Weather Shore Jefferson County in 1843. James Edward Alexander Oswego in the Early 184Os. Anonymous An Immigrant Couple in Oswego County, 1828. Benjamin Smith The 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 Mackay The 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 Shirreff THE 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 Alexander Three 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 Alexander THE 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 Dalton Bibliography Index

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Roger M. Haydon is Executive Editor at Cornell University Press.