Withers, Alexander S.:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE, OR A HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES, OF NORTH-WESTERN VIRGINIA: AND OF THE INDIAN WARS AND MASSACRES, IN THAT SECTION OF THE STATE; WITH REFLECTIONS, ANECDOTES, ... One of the classic compilations concerning the settlement of the Ohio country, with many a gory tale of torture, the stake, and the scream of the captive. "Of this scarce book, very few copies are complete or in good condition. Having been issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed principally for a local circulation, almost every copy was read by a country fire-side until scarcely legible. Most of the copies lack the table of contents. The author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed" - Field.

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