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Travels of William Bartram, Quaker Botanist
2017
Overview
Following Jonathan Carver’s expedition in the 1760s, Anglo-American travel—and accounts of it—increased in “Indian territories” as well as in areas of colonial settlement. Those who crossed the frontier in the last third of the century and sometimes recorded their experiences included explorers and fur traders such as Alexander Henry (discussed in chapter 4), John Long and Alexander Mackenzie (treated in chapter 8), speculators such as John Filson, settlers moving west, naturalists, and British visitors whose itineraries took them into “wild” parts.¹ But none of the Anglo-American narratives of encounters with North American Indians in this period has the
