Excerpt from Early Western Travels, Vol. 1<br><br>In these two volumes we reprint the works of three West ern travellers: George W. Ogden's Letters from the West; William Bullock's Sketch of a Journey through the Western States; and Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies. The first two of these are slight sketches, chiefly interesting for their accounts of the Ohio Valley and its metropolis, Cincin nati, at the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth cen tury. The third is the classic description of the Santa Fé trail. 'although limited in scope, it fills its particular niche so completely, that it is entitled to rank as one of the great works of American history.'<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.