North America

The Bowery and eastern section of the city are full of cheap lodging houses, which form a peculiar feature of city life. "There is a very large and increasing class of vagrants who live from hand to mouth, and who, beneath the dignity of the lowest grade of boarding houses, find a nightly abode in cheap lodgings. These establishments are planned so as to afford the greatest accommodation in point of numbers with the least in point of comfort. The halls or rather passages are narrow, and the rooms are small, dark, dirty and infested with vermin.

by Henry Inman

by John Wesley Powell

1895

IN THE HIGH SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

by George Wharton James

1915

by Isabella L. Bird

by Arnold Bennett

1912

The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

by Dillon Wallace

by Cabeza de Vaca

by Francis Parkman

by Anthony Trollope