The Devil's Backbone The Story of the Natchez Trace

by Jonathan Daniels

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New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962 Part of The American Trails Series. A stirring account ot the Old Southwest, including the exploits of George Rogers Clark. From the first accounts of the incursions by De Soto, Daniel Boone through days of the Natchez Trace as a robber beset return route from Natchez to Nashville, Tennessee for the flatboat crews on the Mississippi. NF/G- Brown cloth boards with tri-color Gilt stamped design on front; gilt lettering and stamp on spine. Book's page edges have slight soiling. DJ has moderate edge wear and yellowing of the paper, particulartly the spine. Some tattering and sun fading of spine edges also. Map on front fly pages. Many woodcut illustrations. First Edition Eleventh Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Good Minus. Illus. by [Leo and Diane] Dillon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.