Item #22110 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS: To Which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Discovery of America by Columbus, and of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth . . . To Which is Now Added , a Historical Account of the Sufferings of the Inhabitants of the Frontier Settlements by the Savages, During the French and Revolutionary Wars and Also the Particulars of Every Important Engagement with the Indians in the Southern and Western States and Territories . . . A New Edition, with an Entire New Arrangement, Essential Corrections, and Large Additions. Henry Trumbull.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS: To Which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Discovery of America by Columbus, and of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth . . . To Which is Now Added , a Historical Account of the Sufferings of the Inhabitants of the Frontier Settlements by the Savages, During the French and Revolutionary Wars and Also the Particulars of Every Important Engagement with the Indians in the Southern and Western States and Territories . . . A New Edition, with an Entire New Arrangement, Essential Corrections, and Large Additions.

HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS: To Which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Discovery of America by Columbus, and of the Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth . . . To Which is Now Added , a Historical Account of the Sufferings of the Inhabitants of the Frontier Settlements by the Savages, During the French and Revolutionary Wars and Also the Particulars of Every Important Engagement with the Indians in the Southern and Western States and Territories . . . A New Edition, with an Entire New Arrangement, Essential Corrections, and Large Additions.

Philadelphia: James A. Bill, 1848. Early reprint. Hardcover. viii, 320 pp., folding 3-panel frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations (all are handcolored); octavo, original brown cloth with cover ornaments in gilt and blind. Nick to cloth at top of spine, endpapers and blanks quite foxed, text with light scattered foxing, overall about very good. Item #22110

Originally published in 1802 under the title "History of the Discovery of America" and author pseudonym "Rev. James Steward." A very popular and much reprinted work. Dismissed by Howes as "A well-nigh worthless production of a seventeen-year old lad which enjoyed wide favor by an uncritical public." Though apparently not useful as historical source material, the text would seem to have importance as an historical artifact and shaper of prejudices and popular perceptions in that era of American history. Howes T370, Sabin 97196 (for multiple editions).

Price: $150.00

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