Item #35288 CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that Section of the State, with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c. Alexander Scott Withers, Reuben Gold Thwaites., Lyman Copeland Draper.
CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that Section of the State, with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c.

CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that Section of the State, with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c.

Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895. A New Edition. Cloth. 1895 revised edition of 1831 first edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 447 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Tips, top/base of spine and edges rubbed with a small wrinkle on spine. Small bubble under cloth on rear cover. Binding very slightly bowed. Rear hinge cracked. Text appears clean and unmarked.

HOWES W-601 a. Very Good. Item #35288

Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792 – 23 January 1865) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, magistrate, teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention (1861) establishing the state of West Virginia. He is celebrated as the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831), a history of (and important primary source on) the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians.

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