Primary Sources: Digital Collections

GDZ Document Server [online]. Goettingen, Germany: Goettingen State and University Library, c2001- [cited 21 June 2002]. Available from: http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml.
Search for Tennessee in the Title field of a simple search. Includes Frederick Law Olmsted's A Journey in the Back Country, Friedrich Ratzel's Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika, and other works.

Primary Sources: Selected Books & Articles

Durand, Kemper B. "An Early Visit to Memphis." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 37 (1983): 88-95.
A travel account from 1838 by Episcopal bishop Jackson Kemper.

Remini, Robert V., ed. "A New York 'Yankee' in Tennessee, 1821." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 37 (Fall 1978): 278-92.
New York businessman J.D. Steele's journal while traveling in Tennessee.

Schwaab, Eugene L., ed. Travels in the Old South: Selected from Periodicals of the Times. 2 vols. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1973.

Smith, Sam, ed. Tennessee History: A Bibliography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974.
The "Early Travel Accounts" section (p.23-26) includes about 25 references to books and articles.