The Spirit of the Border - Retold for Young Readers

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 1/2" x 8. Sherwan, Earl. 250 Pages. Light tan boards with green lettering to spine and front cover. Decoration on front board of a young man crouched with a rifle. Illustrated endpapers with a ranch scene of home, people, and horses. Page edges are red. Light age-tanning to most pages but not brittle. Has the feel of a book never read. This is an historical novel first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian Church missionaries to Christianize Indians and how two brothers' lives take different paths upon their arrival on the border. A highly romanticized account. Contents in 28 Chapters: A Slight Mistake, Joe Downs's Brother, Silvertip, Ambushed, Wind of Death, Deathwind Dies at Dawn, Fort Henry, Getting Acquainted, The Raising, Village of Peace, The New Preacher, Do Not Bury the Hatchet, The Face at the Window, Deathwind's Pupil, On Girty's Trail, The Fight at the Spring, Whispering Winds . Knife and Tomahawk Wetzel's Warning Visitors to the Village Hostile Chiefs . The Fatal Decision, The Death Decree, The Bullet From the Cliff, The Last Service, Wetzel's Vengeance, Trail Test, and Wetzel Answers a Question.