Indian Wars Of The West; Containing Biographical Sketches Of Those Pioneers Who Headed The Western Settlers In Repelling The Attacks Of The Savages, Together With A View Of The Character, Manners, Monuments, And Antiquities Of The Western Indians

TIMOTHY FLINT

Publication: Published by E H Flint, 1833, Cincinnati

First edition. 11 cm x 18 cm leather covers with titles in gold gilt on the spine, 240 pp. An interesting compilation of narratives of frontiersmen and families from early times to the Blackhawk War in Illinois and Wisconsin. Includes the captivities of Boone and the Hall girls, along with others. Document accounts of depredations, heroism, exploration and settlement in the South and the Old Northwest. Chapters include: Physical View of the Est; Discovery and Conquest of Florida, and Settlement on the Mississippi; Angl-American Settlements; Annals of West Pennsylvania and Virginia; First Settlement of Kentucky; Settlement of Kentucky Cont.; Settlement of Tennessee; Incidents of the Border Warfare of West Pennsylvania and Virginia Resumed; Settlement of Ohio; Incidents Attending the Settlement of Louisiana Resumed; Incidents of the Late War with Great Britain that Occurred in the West; Monumental Remains of the Past, in the Mississippi Valley; Brief Notices of Some of the Western Pioneers; and Sketch of the Indian War on the North-West Frontier in 1832. Former owner's inked name and date on two front fly leaves, "David W. Foster, Boston, 1842," lightly foxed throughout, leather covers rubbed at the extremities, else good, tight, internally clean copy of a scarce book.

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