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HUGE 1884 🔥 PIONEER HISTORY_INDIANS_BOONE_KIT_MASSACRES_KING PHILIP_TEXAS_SCOUT
$ 131.99
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With 1,032 pages -
One exciting story after another, in such great detail no other book of its time had accomplished!
from preface: CIVILIZATION is a war — a war of light with darkness; of truth with falsehood; of the illuminated intellect and the rectified heart with the barbarism of ignorance and the anomalies of the savage....
the thrilling history of the struggle between the White man and the Red man for the possession of this continent.
Title :
The Pioneer History of America
author:
Augustus Mason, AM
published:
Jones Brothers,
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1884
binding:
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stamped pictorial hardcover with gilt lettering
LARGE size:
apx 9.75" x 7.25" with
1,032
pages
WEIGHS OVER 4 LBS!
with numerous illustrations-
most full page!
apx 100 picts -quick count
Contents:
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A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE HEROES AND ADVENTURERS WHO, BY THEIR VALOR AND WAR-CRAFT, BEAT BACK THE SAVAGES FROM THE BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND GAVE THE AMERICAN FORESTS TO THE PLOW AND THE SICKLE.
EMBRACING THE LEGEND OF
POWHATAN
;
THE TRIALS OF
LA SALLE
;
THE FATE OF
KING PHILIP
;
THE LION AND THE LILIES;
ROGERS'S RANGERS;
THE ADVENTURES OF
WAYNE'S SCOUTS
;
THE AMBITION OF PONTIAC;
BRANT AND THE
MOHAWKS
;
THE
BLOODY YEAR OF THE THREE 7's;
THE CONFLICT IN THE OHIO VALLEY;
THE EXPLOII S OF
WETZEL
;
THE COURAGE OF
KENTON
;
THE BRAVERY OF
BRADY
;
THE DAYS OF
DANIEL BOONE
;
THE MORAVIAN MASSACRES;
THE CRUELTIES OF GIRTY;
THE DOOM OF CRAWFORD;
TROUBLES OF THE TENNESSEANS ;
THE ROMANCEÂ OF RED EAGLE;
THE TRUE STORY OF THE PROPHET;
THE SORROWS OF THE
SEMINOLES
,
BLACK HAWK
'S HUMILIATION;
THE HISTORY OF
KIT CARSON
;
THE HEROES OF THE
LONE STAR STATE
;
THE TRAGEDY OF MINNESOTA; JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN;
THE RED MAN OF TO-DAY, ETC
A rare book
Condition:
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. all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good condition.... for its age:
boards -
very secure, back cover is as clean as the front
textblock
- pages secure
outer joints
-Â just ok / repair to the bottom front [see last picture] and some splitting to the back one plus a small hole [picture 11]
spine ends
-Â good, some wear and bottom one part of the repair
tips
- pretty good / some wear -back lower one bent [pict 11]
inner hinges
-Â pretty good / some of the paper was cracked and someone re-glued it
pages
- very clean - only a few spots / title page is by far the dirtiest!
writing
- inscription on ffep
rips /folds
- no rips that I saw / a few wee tip folds /
other:
- these old and heavy books are often found falling apart -this one is good, sturdy, and clean!
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