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Incidents and sketches connected with the early history and settlement of the West.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian captivities.
- Wood-engraving, American.
- Mississippi River Valley--History.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- West (U.S.)--History.
- West (U.S.).
- Smith, James, 1737-1813.
- Smith, James.
- Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836.
- Kenton, Simon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([5]-72, [i.e. 65] p., [9] leaves of plates ) ill., port. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati [Ohio] : U.P. James, [1847?]
- Notes:
- Possibly a reprint of an issue which included plates with blank versos in the numbering.
- "A collection from newspapers, and other equally authentic sources, of fragments of narratives of border life and Indian warfare. Worthless for historical purposes."--Sabin. Bibl. amer., no. 34426.
- "Adventures of Captain Daniel Boon," p. 10; "Valley of the Mississippi," by J.M. Peck, p. 14; "The Last of the Indian Fighters," [biography of Simon Kenton], p. 35; "An Historical Sketch of the Early American Settlements in Illinois," by J.M. Peck, p. 38; "The Prairie," by J.J. Audubon, p. 44; "Adventures of Col. James Smith," p. 49; "Sailing Down the Ohio," by Audubon, p. 61.
- Two columns to the page.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 34426.
- OCLC:
- 12
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