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Journal of Tour in America in 1867 by Charles J Guthrie with a commentary by Edward Ranson. (Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2000) 88pp.
ISBN:0 906265290
Ted Ranson has meticulously researched and annotated the journal kept by eighteen year old Charles John Guthrie during a visit to the United States in 1867. It documents a trans-Atlantic voyage in a Cunard Steamship and travels in post Civil War America. Guthrie visited New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Richmond and Cincinnati as well as the prairies and Niagara Falls