Sketches Of Western Adventure Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1735 to 1794: With an Appendix.
Published by Ells. Claflin & Co., Dayton, OH, 1847
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Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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12mo; 315 pages, 3/4 blue morocco, marbled paper, scuffed, top cover just starting. "[One of the ] favorites of the devoted student of early American pioneer life, because [it contains] all the elements of our primitive virtues, readiness, courage, reckless will-power, and amiable expansiveness - J. Christian Bay, FORTUNE OF BOOKS." It describes the escapades of various frontier heroes, including Daniel Boone, William Crawford, Francis Downing, Simon Kenton, Widow Scraggs, Arthur St. Clair, and Anthony Wayne.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sketches Of Western Adventure Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1735 to 1794: With an Appendix.
- Author
- McClung, John A.
- Publisher
- Ells. Claflin & Co., Dayton, OH
- Publication year
- 1847
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Revised & Enlarged edition.
- Seller catalogs
- History, HISTORY::Native American, HISTORY::United States::Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY::United States::General
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.
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