SKETCHES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST INTERESTING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST, FROM 1755 TO 1794.
Published by Cincinnati. 1839.
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Seller: William Reese Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.William Reese Company
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A later issue, "revised and corrected, with engravings," after the rare Maysville issue of 1832. A miscellany of tales of the opening of the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky. One of the prime sources of the Daniel Boone tale, the work went through multiple editions. Thomson calls it "the most complete collection of captivities and adventures ever published in one volume." HOWES M46. SABIN 43052. 315pp. including frontispiece and full-page illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered with later leather. Lightly and evenly dampstained throughout. Good.
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- Title
- SKETCHES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST INTERESTING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST, FROM 1755 TO 1794.
- Author
- McClung, John A.:
- Publisher
- Cincinnati. 1839.
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