Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America
| Title | Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America |
| Year for Search | 1827 |
| Authors | Bullock, W[illiam](c. 1773-1849) |
| Date Published | 1827 |
| Publisher | John Miller |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54. |
| Info Notes | The text says that the author bought the land on which he planned to build Hygeia and that he returned to England to collect family and friends to settle there. He lived there for a time and is mentioned in Chapter 5 of Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), but the planned community was not established, and Bullock sold the property and returned to England. |
| Holding Institutions | L |
| Author Note | (c. 1773-1849) |
| Full Text | 1827 Bullock, W[illiam] (c. 1773-1849). Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America. London: John Miller. Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54. L Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky. |
