The Voice of the Old Frontier

Book Description

New York: Octagon, 1970 Second edition, first published in 1949. 492pp. Index to the appendix. Blue decorated cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Although this comprises a collection of lectures delivered by the author at the University of Pennsylvania, the bulk of the text is actually an annotated bibliographical appendix (with full collations) of the works written by people on the frontier. Includes 1,300 narratives of Indian captivity, promotional literature, literature of land speculators, etc. The author was president of the Bibliographical Society of America..

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