print email comment close The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html Description: This collection of "original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West" features materials on Native Americans, blacks, women, leaders, industry, agriculture, and more. Includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, financial records, maps, artifacts, and pictorial images -- all from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. From the Library of Congress American Memory Project. Publisher: Library of Congress (LOC) Extra Keywords slaves african american Library of Congress Subject Headings: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio River Valley Ohio River Valley -- History LII Database Information: Record 5622 created by Martha Gifford on 12/05/2003 Last modification on 02/04/2005 Published: 12/05/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5622