THE BACK-WOODSMEN OR TALES OF THE BORDERS. A COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS AMONG THE INDIANS

by Spooner, Walter W.:

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Cincinnati: W.E. Dibble & Company, 1883.. 608pp. plus twenty-five illustrations. Frontis. Original brown cloth, gilt pictorial cover and spine. Rubbed, front hinge nearly broken, rear hinge cracked, front free endpaper detached. Internally clean. Good. An exciting, albeit prejudiced, collection of tales about life on the frontier. Included is the Indian captivity of John McCullough, an account of the adventures of Daniel Boone, and the story of the Dover Indian massacre in colonial New Hampshire. "A valuable store house of materials on the far west in the early days. Pages 125-79 contain the narrative of Robert McClellan's trip across the plains in 1811 with the Hunt Expedition and of his return with Robert Stuart in 1812" - Eberstadt. An excellent collection of frontier adventures. HOWES S841. GRAFF 3934. RADER 2964. EBERSTADT 122:340.

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