Item #682 Story of Fort Meigs and Other Original Documents, [The Maumee Country and Old Northwest]. C. S. Van Tassel, Managing.

Story of Fort Meigs and Other Original Documents, [The Maumee Country and Old Northwest]

Bowling Green, OH: Historical Publications Company, n.d. Brown leatherette 8vo. 293 pp. plus 8 pp. contents and index, unpaginated. A tight, clean, very good copy with a touch of rubbing at top and bottom of spine and along back joint. Item #682

Contains Dr. Joseph Doddridge Pioneer Selections on descriptions of the wilderness, settlement, hunting and beasts and birds. Dress of Pioneers, Description of a Wedding, The Housewarming, House Furniture and Diet, Sports, Mechanical Arts, Working, Wild Fruits, The Fort, Medicines, Morals of the Pioneers and Civilization. Also Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past" including Visit and Talks with John Adams, Lafayette and Colonel Huger, Daniel Webster at Home, A Journey with Judge Story, Visits to John Randolph, The Supreme Court and the "Marianna Flora," Washington Society in 1826, Jackson in Massachusetts. Also included is Colonel Daniel Boone's Autobiography, Mrs. Trollope's Domestic Manners of Americans and Selections from Col. Jas. Smith's Travels and Way's Ohio-Michigan War.

Price: $27.50

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