This section looks at everything to do with individual states within America, including the territory of Alaska. If it relates to a state, you'll find it here, whether it's travel, history, a look at a specific town or city, cultural events and festivals, curiosities, etc. Several states have so many articles that they've earned their own page or pages!

• See Regional Life & Cross-Country Travel for larger areas of the US, such as "The Southwest" or "The Rockies," and articles on cross-country travel.

• See Territories & Protectorates for information on Porto Rico, Samoa and the Philippines.

• See the Civil War section for articles on engagements in specific states and towns.

Alaska - See:

• Alaska

• Native American tribes of Alaska, Canada & the Pacific Northwest

Arizona

An Artist's Glimpse of Northern Arizona, by F.S. Dellenbaugh (St. Nicholas, 1889)

California - See:

• California in the Victorian Era

• California History

Colorado

The Garden of the Gods, by Eliza Greatorex (St. Nicholas, 1875)

A Symphony in Yellow and Red (Atlantic Monthly, 1875)

The Wheeler Expedition in Southern Colorado (Harper's Monthly, 1876A)

Ups and Downs in Leadville (Scribners, 1879B)

Silver San Juan (Harper's Monthly, 1882A)

A Colorado Cavern, by Ernest Ingersoll (Century Magazine, 1882B)

The Cave of the Winds, near Pike's Peak.

O-Be-Joyful Creek and Poverty Gulch (Atlantic Monthly, 1883)

Some Colorado mining towns.

How a Consumptive Found Health (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1883)

The health benefits of the Colorado climate.

Connecticut

Labor and Capital: A Connecticut Experiment, by Washington Gladden (Century Magazine, 1887B)

The Seaside Institute in Bridgeport, Connecticut was built for the use and benefit of the female employees of the Warner Brothers Corset Company. It was designed as a dining, lecture and meeting hall with library, music and reading rooms for the benefit of these female employees, as well as a rooming-house.

Hunting an Abandoned Farm in Connecticut/New England, by William Henry Bishop (Century Magazine, 1894A, 1894B)

Charming account of searching for just the right farmhouse.

A Masquerade of Cats (The Strand, 1904B)

A masquerade ball given by the Connecticut Cat Club.

Dakota Territory

Dakota, by P.F. McClure (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

The Dakotas, by Julian Ralph (Harper's Monthly, 1892A)

Florida

Up the St. John's River (Atlantic Monthly, 1865)

[St. Augustine] The Ancient City (Harper's Monthly, 1875A)

The Oklawaha (Harper's Monthly, 1876A)

South Florida Scenery, by M. Penrose (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1892)

On the St. Augustine Road, by Bradford Torrey (Atlantic Monthly, 1893)

In the Flat-Woods, by Bradford Torrey (Atlantic Monthly, 1893)

Along the Hillsborough, by Bradford Torrey (Atlantic Monthly, 1893)

Caught on a Lee Shore, by William Henn (Century Magazine, 1893B)

"Pleasures and perils of a cruise on the Florida coast."

On the Upper St. Johns, by Bradford Torrey (Atlantic Monthly, 1894)

Georgia

A Georgia Corn-Shucking, by David C. Barrow, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1882B)

A look at a "negro" corn-shucking, including a number of folk-songs. Lots of dialect.

The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mills, by Clare de Graffenreid (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Middle Georgia Rural Life, by R.M. Johnston (Century Magazine, 1892A)

Idaho

The Coeur d'Alene [Gold] Stampede, by Eugene V. Smalley (Century Magazine, 1884B)

The Shoshone Falls, by John Codman (Century Magazine, 1890A)

Illinois

The Claims of Chicago, by George M. Higginson (Century Magazine, 1885A)

Countering the suggestion that New York will be the "final world metropolis" and putting in Chicago's claim for a similar honor.

The Chicago Anarchists of 1886, by Joseph E. Gary (Century Magazine, 1893A)

"The crime, the trial and the punishment." The author was the judge presiding over the trial.

Iowa

Young Man, Go West (Harper's Monthly, 1881A)

A look at the Close Colony of Iowa, with interesting details about the costs of farming and other ventures of the period.

Notes from the Prairie, by John Burroughs (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Kansas

A Corn Carnival, by Arthur Harris (The Strand, 1898A)

Kentucky

The Kentucky Pioneers, by John Mason Brown (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom" at Home in Kentucky, by James Lane Allen (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Slave-holding and slave life in Kentucky.

A Home of the Silent Brotherhood: The Abbey of LaTrappe in Kentucky, by James Lane Allen (Century Magazine, 1888B)

A Benedictine Trappist monastery in America.

Comments on Kentucky, by Charles Dudley Warner (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

A Taste of Kentucky Bluegrass, by John Burroughs (Century Magazine, 1890B)

Homesteads of the [Kentucky] Blue-Grass, by James Lane Allen (Century Magazine, 1892B)

A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, by Prof. W.G. Blaikie (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1894)

Fox-Hunting in Kentucky, by John Fox, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1895B)

Fun on the Stump, by Edward J. McDermott (Century Magazine, 1895B)

"Humors of political campaigning in Kentucky."

After B'rer Rabbit in the Bluegrass: A Thanksgiving Event, by John Fox, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1897A)

Louisiana

Maine

Moosehead Lake (Harper's Monthly, 1875B)

[Castine] An Old Town with a History, by Noah Brooks (Century Magazine, 1882B)

Maryland

Old Maryland Manners (Scribners, 1879A)

A Visit to a Canning House [in Baltimore], by Catherine Owen (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Old Maryland Homes and Ways, by John Williamson Palmer (Century Magazine, 1895A)

Certain Worthies and Dames of Old Maryland, by John Williamson Palmer (Century Magazine, 1896A)

Massachusetts

Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Harper's Monthly, 1882A)

Minnesota

The Land of Lakes; Or, the New Northwest (Harper's Monthly, 1875B)

Field Sports in Minnesota (Scribners, 1879B)

Camp Grindstone, by Henry Eckford (Century Magazine, 1885B)

A canoeing meet at a vacation camp in the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River.

The Flour-Mills of Minneapolis, by Eugene V. Smalley (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Mississippi/Mississippi River Region

Wonders of the Lowlands (Harper's Monthly, 1875A)

The great Indian mounds of the Mississippi.

Old Times on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain (Atlantic Monthly, 1875)

On a Mississippi Steamboat, by Catherine Owen (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Traveling from New Orleans to St. Louis on a Mississippi steamboat... "I am sorry to say a great deal of drinking, smoking and card-playing goes on, on board these steamers..."

Missouri

Notes on City Government in St. Louis, by Albert Shaw (Century Magazine, 1896B)

Montana

The Kalispel Country, (MT) by Eugene V. Smalley (Century Magazine, 1885A)

The Upper Missouri and the Great Falls, by Eugene V. Smalley (Century Magazine, 1888A)

Nebraska

Four Friends in a Phaeton [in Nebraska] (Demorest, 1886)

Four friends embark on a driving tour of Nebraska, with delightful results!

The Devil's Corkscrews: A Puzzle for Geologists, by Rene Bache (The Strand, 1899B)

Curious petrified formations in Nebraska, that have since been attributed to the burrowing of a prehistoric beaver!

Nevada

The Glacier Meadows of the Sierra (Scribners, 1879A)

The Passes of the Sierra (Scribners, 1879A)

A Mountain of Gold [Seaton Mountain] by C.S. Pelham-Clinton (The Strand, 1896A)

New Hampshire

Exeter's American Namesake (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Old Portsmouth Profiles by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Century Magazine, 1893B)

New Jersey

Life at Long Branch, by Olive Logan (Harper's Monthly, 1876B)

The "fashionable watering-place" of New Jersey.

Newark (Harper's Monthly, 1876B)

Snubbin' Through Jersey, by F. Hopkinson Smith and J.B. Millet (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Navigating New Jersey waters in a canal boat.

New Mexico

Ascent of the Enchanted Mesa, by F.W. Hodge (Century Magazine, 1898B)

Katzimo, the mesa of the Acoma Indians.

New York - See:

• New York City Life

• Sites & Buildings in New York City

• New York State

• New York History

North Carolina

The French Broad (Harper's Monthly, 1875A)

Ohio

The Serpent Mound of Ohio, by F.W. Putnam (Century Magazine, 1890A)

Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Boomers, by George Dollar (The Strand, 1897B)

Oregon

Excursion to the Oregon (Chambers Miscellany, 1845)

A visit to the Oregon territory in 1834.

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

The "Old Mill" at Newport (Scribners, 1879A)

Who built it? Colonists? Indians? Northmen? This article looks at the history, design, and probable origins of the mill.

South Carolina

Up the Ashley and Cooper [Rivers] (Harper's Monthly, 1876A)

A Recent Phase of Relief Work, by Lawrence Veiller (Century Magazine, 1894B)

The plight of South Carolinians after a series of devastating cyclones.

Texas

A Lady's Journey to Texas and Back Again, by Julia Conron (Girl's Own Paper, 1883-84)

In 1880, having suffered "great losses in business," a British family "resolved to try what a new country could do for us -- or rather what we could manage to do in another land." A fascinating look at the journey (the San Antonio hotel was a whopping $1 per night), and life on a small Texas ranch.

[Galveston] The Queen of the Mexican Gulf, by Catherine Owen (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

The author's search for "rustic" America leads her to Galveston, Texas - which she finds not so rustic at all!

The Texan Farmer (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)

A Tenderfoot in Texas by Stanley L. Wood (Windsor, 1897A)

A British artist's delightful account (and illustrations) of his visit to a Texas ranch.

Utah

The Silver Mountains of Utah (Harper's Monthly, 1876B)

Has Utah a Republican Form of Government? (Century Magazine, 1882A)

The New Star for Our Flag, by Frances E. Lanigan (Ladies Home Journal, 1896)

The addition of a star for the state of Utah, bringing the current total of stars to 45.

Vermont

The Green Mountains in Sugar-Time (Harper's Monthly, 1881A)

Virginia

The Old Regime in the Old Dominion, by George Cary Eggleston (Atlantic Monthly, 1875)

Life in pre-Civil-War Virginia.

Virginia in the Revolution, by John Esten Cooke (Harper's Monthly, 1876B)

The Caverns of Luray (Century Magazine, 1882A)

How the caverns were discovered and developed, and how they appeared to tourists of the day.

Life in Old Virginia, by Edith M. Nicholl (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

An Englishwoman finds Virginia pleasant, except for the very non-English weather!

The Home and Haunts of Washington/Mount Vernon as It Is, by Constance Cary Harrison and Sophie Bledsoe Herrick (Century Magazine, 1888A)

Along the Lower James, by Charles Washington Coleman (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Manors and plantations along Virginia's James River.

By the Waters of Chesapeake, by John Williamson Palmer (Century Magazine, 1894A)

Colonial days in Virginia.

A Day's Expedition in Virginia, by the Countess of Meath (Girl's Own Paper, 1894)

The Countess finds American ways a bit different from what she is used to -- especially the way ordinary folks consider themselves her equal!

Washington

From Puget Sound to the Upper Columbia, by Eugene V. Smalley (Century Magazine, 1885A)

An interesting look at the Puget Sound area before Washington became a state; apparently at that time Mt. Rainier was known as Mt. Tacoma. This article also has considerable information about the local Indian tribes.

Washington, DC

Wisconsin

Milwaukee (Harper's Monthly, 1881A)

The State of Wisconsin, by the Hon. W.B. Vilas (Harper's Monthly, 1891A)

Wyoming

An Elk-Hunt at Two-Ocean Pass, by Theodore Roosevelt (Century Magazine, 1892B)

A Journey to the Devil's Tower in Wyoming, by Thomas Moran (Century Magazine, 1894A)

[Yellowstone] Wonderland in America, by Mrs. Fenwick Miller (The Strand, 1894B)