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by Ted Spring. Softbound, 112 pages, 8" x 11". Drawings and text detail the guns, swords, knives, uniforms and equipment of the Dragoons during America’s first 75 years.

by Robert & Dona Holden. Softbound, 232 pages, 5" x 8". This book is the first comprehensive account of the ultimate wilderness archetypes, the hunting pioneer families in the deep woods.These hunting pioneers had a totally different perspective on the wilderness than did the farming pioneers who far outnumbered them. The hunting pioneers continually sought out remote forests where the game animals roamed; the farming pioneers followed behind, methodically destroying those wilds with their axes and plows. A dynamic force from the early 1700's to the mid 1800's, the hunting pioneers originated in the Delaware River colony of New Sweden. The Swede-Finns lived there in the forests where their way of life was greatly influenced by the local Indians. Over the years, these Swede-Finns were joined by a growing number of English, German, and Scotch-Irish immigrants who also adopted the hunting pioneer life-style. Together they led the advance through the backcountry of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, all the way to the edge of the treeless Great Plains. Often illiterate, the hunting pioneers left virtually no written records. Fortunately, foreign andtravelers recorded their impressions of these colorful backwoods people describing in detail their clothing, dwellings, and unique life-style. Excerpts from thirty of these eyewitness descriptions have been included in this work.

Edited by Dale Payne. Softbound, 228 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Taken from the Draper Manuscripts, this book is a series of interviews conducted by the Rev. John D. Shane during the early to mid 1800's. Includes a section of Historical Notes on the 18th Century and Facts and Findings on Pioneer Life. A follow up of the author's earlier works.

by Dale Payne, Softbound, 277 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". The last in the Frontier Memories series. Additional interviews conducted by Rev. John D. Shane of the pioneers of the early and mid 1800's. These interviews once again describe their hardships, adventures and the various aspects of pioneer life on the frontier. These little details of pioneer life can be found nowhere else, except here and in the Draper Manuscripts. This book also includes a revised and expanded edition of the original Frontier Memories (2002) that proved to be so popular and in such great demand, but has been out of print for some time now. 

 by Ted Belue. Hardbound, 237 pages, 6" x 9". By the 1820’s, the Eastern buffalo were gone and much of its habitat radically altered. The Long Hunt is the first book to deal solely with the buffalo that once ranged from east of the Blue Ridge to theMississippi. Grim visions of the slaughter are told through the eyes of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, John Donelson, Christopher Gist, Louis Joliet, George Morgan and others.

by Robert J. Moore, Jr. and Michael Haynes. Hardbound, 288 pages, 10-1/2" x 10". Crossing the continent in 1803, Lewis & Clark started out in U.S. Army uniforms, which gradually had to be replaced with simple leather garments. For parts of those uniforms, only a single drawing, pattern, or example survives. The authors have researched archives and museums to locate and verify what the men wore. Also included are Indian styles the men adopted, and the wardrobes of the Creole interpreters and the French boatmen. Weapons and accessories round out this complete record of what the expedition wore or carried. A great reference for artists, living history buffs, museums, and military historians.

Introduction by John Bakeless. Softbound, 384 pages, 4" x 7". Lewis & Clark’s stirring account of their historic expedition of adventure and discovery across America’s great Northwest. Taken from the text of their original journals.

Edited by Elliott Cowes. Softbound, volume one of a 3-volume set, total 1350 pages, 6" x 9".  From May, 1804 to September, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark undertook one of the greatest adventures of modern man. Their government-sponsored exploration of the wilderness between the Mississippi and the Pacific took them through one of the most magnificent geographical areas on earth. This reprint of an 1893 edition is both a thrilling narrative and a valuable text for anyone interested in the opening of the American West. Includes a large scale, fold-out map of the route.

Edited by Elliott Cowes. Softbound, volume 2 of a 3-volume set, total 1350 pages, 6" x 9".  Includes a large scale, fold-out map of the route.

Edited by Elliott Cowes. Softbound, the final volume of a  3-volume set, total 1350 pages, 6" x 9".

by Alvin M. Josephy. Hardbound, 192 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". For the first time, the Lewis and Clark expedition is seen through the eyes of Indian writers, historians, and tribal leaders of our time. Nine fresh interpretations of the expeditions' affect on the native people it encountered. An exploration of history, a story of survival, that expands our knowledge of our country's first inhabitants and their descendants.

Edited by Carol L. Mac Gregor. Softbound, 460 pages, 6" x 9". Sgt. Patrick Gass’s journal, never widely available to a general audience, is the most readable and straightforward account of the Lewis and Clarkexpedition, largely because Gass focused on the human aspects of the epic journey. In this new edition, the author’s thorough annotation of the journal and the inclusion of Gass’s previously unknown account book from later in his life lend new insight into Gass’s work and his life.

by Russell Reid. Softbound, 25 pages, 7" x 8". A brief look at the life and legend of this famous member of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

by Sewell Elias Slick. Hardbound, 188 pages, 6" x 9". The biography of William Trent, one of the major figures in early colonial history. He was in an official capacity at the important councils at Logstown in 1752 and Eston in 1757; he was with Gen. John Forbes, Col. Bouquet, and Maj. Washington as they blazed their way through the Western Pennsylvania wilderness. He was in on the founding of Pittsburgh. He partnered with George Croghan and his journals of his trips with Andrew Montour into the Ohio country are some of the most important documents we have on the early history of the westward movement. A lusty figure in the days of early westward movement in the mid 18th century when anything beyond the Susquehanna River was considered the frontier.

by James Merrell. Softbound, 463 pages, 5" x 8". An award-winning historian's beautifully written reconstruction of how Europeans lived in peace and war with Indians on America's colonial frontier. On the PA frontier, the go-betweens were German and Delaware, Irish and Iroquois, French and Shawnee, with names like Weiser, Shickellamy, Mountour and Osternados. These were the "woodsmen", wise in the ways of the American frontier, knowledgable about the other, and able to navigate the treacherous shoals of misunderstanding and mistrust. For many years, they were able to maintain a fragile peace, but couldn't prevent the outbreak of war in the 1750's.

by John Johnston, edited by Charlotte Reeve Conover. Softbound, 80 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". John Johnston's 1845 memoir of his life and work as an Indian Agent remains a valuable insight into the lives of those whites and Indians who shaped the history of the Ohio country. Drawing from both his personal knowledge and stories related to him by the Natives, he described notable events and people of the Ohio frontier, information on the customs of the tribes, as well as samples of the Shawnee and Wyandot languages. His was a clear vision, born of his daily experiences at Upper Piqua, when the ten tribes inhabiting this part of the middle west were his next door neighbors.

by Douglas Hurt. Softbound, 432 pages, 6" x 9". The first major reassessment of Ohio’s frontier period in fifty years. The Ohio frontier was a land of opportunity, violence, and refuge for both Indians and whites. It served as the political, economic, and social foundation for the settlement of the Old Northwest. First settled about 1720 by migrating Native Americans and later by white Americans, Ohio became the crucible for Indian and military policy throughout the region. Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against an army that was  incompetent at the beginning but highly trained and disciplined in the end. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Ohio and the military, social, political, and economic history of the American frontier.

by Gary S. Williams. Softbound, 173 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Everyone claims to admire the heroes of frontier history, but we all secretly harbor a fascination with some of the darker personalities. This book tells the story of some of the fascinating yet flawed people who influenced events in the settlement of the new American nation's first frontier, the region between the great lakes and the Ohio River. Wether it be accuesd traitors Robert Rogers or Aaron Burr or renegades like Lewis Wetzel and Simon Girty.

by Danny Fulks. Softbound, 224 pages, 6" x 9". The author selects and uses details that subtly recreate not just the events but the mood of a past time and place. He makes rural, working-class folk who lived in the southern Ohio Appalachia region in the early to mid 20th century. By combining accurate description with a peek at the minds and souls of the people he chronicles, the author provides a full and breathing account.