Reed Brown's 1841 Journey: America Through the Eyes of a Vermont Yankee

by Richard H Allen and Richard H. Allen

In the fall of 1841, Vermonter Reed Brown set out on a two-month odyssey with two goals: to obtain a patent for his improved carriage springs, and to assist his brother Nathaniel, in jail in Ohio. Reed kept a journal that chronicles the dangers and difficulties, as well as some of the pleasures, of travel in that time.

He experienced:
- a steamboat explosion,
- a rail car derailment,
- hours of a bone-jarring stagecoach ride,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949066096
• ISBN13: 9781949066098
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Onion River Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"