Hall, James:

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SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS IN THE WEST. "A collection of facts, some of which were the result of the writer's own observation..." - Thomson. Treats also the states of the Midwest and South. "Narratives of frontier warfare with the Indians, and incidents of Indian life, fill almost all the pages of these interesting volumes" - Field. The plan is of the fort at Boonesboro. The work was widely read and served as an important source for Herman Melville's Confidence Man. This is the first edition, issued in a single volume, notwithstanding the notice of "Vol. I" on the titlepage. A revision consisting of two volumes was issued in Philadelphia the following year.

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