Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio 1778-1783 and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark. With Numerous Sketches of Men Who Served Under Clark and Full List of Those Allotted Lands in Clark's Grant for Service in the Campaigns Against the British Posts, Showing Exact Land Allotted Each. [2 vols]
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896. First Edition. First printing. Two tall octavo volumes (25cm). Publisher's pebble-grained brown cloth with gilt ornaments and spine titles; [1]-586, [587]-1186pp; text illustrations. Minor spotting to cloth, else a tight, clean set; Very Good. Ownership signature of a "W.R. Shackleford" to front endpaper of each volume, dated 1920. An exhaustive popular history of post-colonial westward expansion into the territories of modern-day western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky; with detailed accounts of the major battles and skirmishes in the western theatre during the American Revolution and immediately after. HOWES E-157.
Price: $300.00