Summer Rambles in the West is a travelogue written by American author and historian Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet, who published under the pen name Mrs. Ellet. The book was first published in 1853 and describes her travels through the western United States during the summer of 1852.Ellet begins her journey in St. Louis, Missouri, and travels westward through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. Along the way, she describes the landscape,...