Excerpt from The Emigrant's Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Description of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio; The Territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan; And the Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New-York In the present work, it has been the intention of the author, to com; dense into one portable, and cheap volume, such notices of the country described, as would tend to remove many obstacles. The roads are ar ranged for each State and Territory, which are necessary for a removal to any given place in the Valley of the Mississippi, by all the various routes now travelled, either by land or water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.