WITH AXE AND RIFLE, or, THE WESTERN PIONEERS (New and Cheaper Edition)

Text/Strong & sound w/light soiling and faint brown spotting (acidic paper reaction). Illustrated, gilt embossed brown boards/VG w/rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges; also showing light soiling/discoloration. First published 1890; list of published books to rear indicate this copy is a reprint of 1895. Lesions to front hinge; bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. Prolific British writer William Henry Giles Kingston (1814 - 1880) wrote more than 130 adventure stories for boys. B/w illustrations signed by H. Meyer. An adventure set in the early homesteading days of Ohio when new arrivals and indigenous Native American Indians had different notions of proper land use. Narrated in the first person by a young man born in Ohio of Irish immigrants, it is the family's story of venturing further west together with a brave run-away Negro slave.