They Came at Us With Spears and Arrows: Remembering a Tragic Time in America_ (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 2001), 12, 36–37; _The Columns of New York, 1786–1826_ (New York: Trow's Pub. Co., 1890), 16. . Charles Dickens, _A Christmas Carol_ (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1843), 27–28. . Ibid., 3, 19. . Ibid., 44, 46. . Ibid., 46, 68. . Ibid., 69. . William Makepeace Thackeray, _The Newcomes_ (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840), 43. . Ibid., 45–46. . William Makepeace Thackeray, _The Newcomer: His Voyage and Adventures in England_ (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), 4, 14, 40. . Ibid., 22. . Thackeray, _The Newcomes_ , 68, 71, 86. . William Cullen Bryant, _A Tour in the United States_ (London: Henry Colburn, 1832), 6, 10. . Bryant, _A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of the Whole World_ (London: Colburn and Bentley, 1818), 1:9. . John O. Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1838), 25, 35, 50, 59. . Ibid., 69–70. . Ibid., 52, 54–55. . John O. Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant: Containing Directions for Travellers' Finding Their Way by Land and Water; a Descriptive Geography of the United States; Tables of Stations, Distances, and Directions in the Principal Cities of the United States and Territories East of the Rocky Mountains_ (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1844), ix–xxi, 1. . Ibid., ix–xxi. . Ibid., xix. . Ibid., 11, 26, 27, 29. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 28. . Ibid., 29. . Ibid., 28–30, 52, 53, 65, 70, 77. . Ibid., 70. . Ibid., 77. . Ibid., 72. . Ibid., 73–74. . Ibid., 75. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 77, 89. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 69. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 76–77, 85. . Ibid., 82. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , xix, xxi. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 99, 110–11, 120–21, 130. . Ibid., 111. . Ibid., 112, 124, 132, 142. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 73. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 148, 167–69, 171–74. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 72. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 171–74, 178–79, 188, 189. . Ibid., 188. . Ibid., 200, 209–10. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 75–76. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 209–10. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 78–79. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 212, 214. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 77, 81–82, 83–84, 91–92, 96, 97. . Ibid., 83, 84, 86–88. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 227. . Ibid., 219, 221, 223–24, 227–28, 231–32. . Ibid., 233. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 84. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 236–37. . Ibid., 237–38, 241–42. . Ibid., 243, 244. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 65. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 268, 269–70, 275, 280, 281. . Ibid., 281–83. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 101, 103. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 284. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 102. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 285. . Ibid., 286. . Ibid., 286–87. . Ibid., 287–88. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 89. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 287–88. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 100–101. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 289–90. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 102–3. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 290, 291–92. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 103. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 297, 298. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 110–11. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 300–301. . Ibid., 302–3. . Ibid., 304–5, 307. . Ibid., 305, 313, 318, 319. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 106. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 310, 312, 324, 327. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 114, 115. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 329, 330–31, 334–35. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 116–17, 119. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 336–37. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 119. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 342–43. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 120, 121, 123. . Ibid., 125, 131, 134, 137, 138, 142, 145, 146–47, 150, 151–52. . Ibid., 152–53. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 353–55, 361. . Ibid., 363–65. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 138, 141. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 367–68, 371, 375, 377–78. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 139, 140, 143. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 385–86, 390–93. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 144. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 389, 391–92. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 144. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 393. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 143–44, 149–50, 152, 153, 155, 156, 163. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 396–97, 404–5. . Jennings, _Jennings's American Traveller's Assistant_ , 160. . Jennings, _Wanderings of an Obscure Man_ , 419