Cherokee materials, Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803]
Language: English
Date: 1803
Contributor: Wilson, Patrick
Subject: Expeditions | Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana--History | Economic conditions | Agriculture
Type: Text
Genre: Memoirs | Travel narratives
Extent: 2 pages
Description: "Observations while passing thro' the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee nations." No. 3 in Explorations in the Louisiana Country. Reverend Patrick Wilson describes his observations while traveling on a road built between Choctaw and Chickasaw country, including the state of Native-white relations and the growing white population in the area. At Muscle Shoals, he stays with Cherokee chiefs Doublehead and Skiowska. Notes that many Native peoples have good farms, good furnishings, good fences, and good stock, and that one Native man runs an inn.
Collection: Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803] Mss.917.6.Ex7