Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies, 1748 and After. Wonderful Stories of Hardship and Heroism of those who First Braved the Dangers of the Inhospitable Wilderness, and the Savage Tribes that then Inhabited It
Cincinnati: Graphic Press, 1886.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 5" x 7.25", 327 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, with beveled edges and decorative endpapers. Gift inscription from the year of publication on the front flyleaf, touch of rubbing to corners, else fine. A physician and enterprising businessman, Hale was also the grandson of legendary pioneer Mary Draper Ingles (who was taken captive and adopted by the Shawnee during the French and Indian War, before making her escape and enduring a perilous trek home through hundreds of miles of wilderness). This useful account of the early exploration and settlement of western Virginia and Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky includes much on the Draper and Ingles families and the Draper's Meadows Massacre. Howes H-32.
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