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by Gary S. Williams. Softbound, 166 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". The earliest years of Ohio's recorded history were filled with conflict as Americans, Europeans and Native Americans struggled for control of the region. For the white intruders of this era, log forts became the key to survival in this wilderness. The story of these forts is the story of Ohio's beginnings and features some compelling tales.

by Edwin A. Kramb. Softbound, 197 pages, 5-1/4" x 8-1/4". A chronology of the conflicts in Ohio from 1654 thru 1863, battles that took place prior to French and Indian War,  through the Indian War of the Old Northwest, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, plus an extra chapter on the capture of General Morgan in Ohio during the civil War. A catalog of battlefield sites, it does not present great detail of the actions that occurred at these sites, and it does not try to analyze the battles in any great depth. Instead, it is meant to provide a convenient roster of these historic locations to the casual, but interested reader and includes a general synopsis of the combat that took place at each location.

by Kenneth P. Bailey. Hardbound, 374 pages, 6" x 9". The definitive study of the Ohio Company, the largest principal land company competing for land west of the Alleghenys during the mid-1700's. A study of exploration of a new frontier and its Indian policy and problems, of colonial jealousy and conflict, and of traders and trader problems. Complete with five maps, extensive 20 page bibliography, 682 footnotes and a complete index.

by Margaret Van Horn Dwight. Softbound, 64 pages, 5-1/2" x 8". Providing a woman’s perspective of the journey West, this journal gives a first hand account of the trip and the people she traveled with. As they progress, one becomes engrossed in the personal account of the author.

by Andrew Cayton. Softbound, 340 pages, 6" x 9". Cayton’s lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewedtheir world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Hosiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others.

by Harry G. Enoch.  Softbound, 201 pages, 5” x 8”.  Affair at Captina Creek describes a little-known incident of the American Frontier when border strife turned into open war between frontier rangers and the Shawnee in the spring of 1791.  Harry G. Enoch has reconstructed the events surrounding the Battle of Captina Creek using original documents and information gained during his own travels in the region.  The documentary records are reprinted in their entirety and ample background information is provided on the history of Native American relations in the Old Northwest.

by Richard Taylor. Softbound, 56 pages, 5" x 8". Here are three tragedies from early Kentucky history: the defeat of a small army of Kentuckians by Indians at Blue Licks in 1787; the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson’s nephews in western Kentucky in 1807; and the bizarre Beauchame-Sharp murder in Frankfort, KY in 1825. Taylor mixes history with good storytelling and a look at how human shortcomings sometimes lead to ruin.

by Ted Franklin Belue. Hardbound, 315 pages, 6" x 9". Kante-Ke, the Indian name for Kentucky, still evokes images of buffalo, elk, and whitetail deer covering the landscape. Unlike any Kentucky book ever before written, the author conveys, through a deftly woven tapestry of sagas, narratives, and themes of the sweep of humantide infiltrating the land that would become Kentucky. His focus rests upon the common men and a few famous ones. Depicting with exquisite detail the food, clothing, tools, weaponry, habits, skills, and customs of the day. The result is a book that breathes new life into the history of a land and the lives of those well-known as well as those ordinary yet extraordinary men whose exploits and perseverance in the face of incredible perils and hardships shaped the destiny of Kentucky, and in so doing, the United States.

by Randolph C. Downes. Softbound, 367 pages, 5" x 8". Told from the viewport of the Indians, this account of Indian-white relations during the second half of the eighteenth century is an exciting addition to the historical literature of Pennsylvania. From the beginning, when the white traders followed the first Shawnee hunters into Pennsylvania, until the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, the region’s history was the history of the relationship between the Indians and the whites. For nearly half a century, the Indian maintained a precarious hold upon Western Pennsylvania by the expedient of playing off one white faction against the other, first the French against the British, then the British against the Americans.

by Wills De Hass.  Softbound, 416 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2".  An account of the various expeditions in the west, before 1795.  Here it was that Washington received those severe lessons in war which prepared him for the greatest achievements he so gloriously performed in later years, and here was struck the first great blow in the struggle for American Independence.  Illustrated with numerous engravings.

by Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Softbound, 528 pages. 6" x 9". The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains, where successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. This is the dramatic story of the men and woomen from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Focus on the country, the town, the community, and the family as well as the politics and urbanization. Thirteen black and white photographs.

by John P.Hale.  Softbound, 339 pages.  "In  connection with ...these histories of the Ingles and Draper settlements and families, I shall endeavor to trace, in chronological order, the progressive frontier explorations and settlements along the entire Virginia border...with collateral facts and incidents of more or less local or general historical interest."

Edited by Jared Lobdell. Softbound, 121 pages, 5" x 8". Lewis Bonnett, Jr. was the young cousin of Lewis Wetzel and lived with him in his youth. Since Wetzel was entirely illiterate, and to the best of our knowledge never dictated any record of his career, The Recollections of Lewis Bonnett, Jr. is the closest thing we will ever have to the memoirs of Lewis Wetzel.

C. B. Allman. Softbound, 240 pages, 5" x 8". The story of Wetzel’s violent and colorful life on the Ohio frontier in the late 1700’s. This 1932 text includes his family background, his wild exploits into the wilderness of the Ohio Valley plus hisimprisonment and more civilized later life. Considered a hero by some, a pathological killer by others, Wetzel’s story provides another view of the frontier era in the Upper Ohio Valley.

 by C. B. Allman with forward by Joseph Roxby. Hardbound, 237 pages, 6" x 9". For more than fifty years, this has been the standard reference work dealing with Lewis Wetzel.  Though newer, more historically-accurate titlesmay have surpassed it, it is still a most interesting piece of folklore. A "must-have" for the hard-core Lewis Wetzel enthusiast.

Edited by Jared Lobdell. Softbound, 110 pages, 5" x 8". This book contains four narratives composed from the notes and papers of Lyman C. Draper. The Historical Narrative of George Edgington is important for its treatment of Lewis Wetzel and Samuel Brady. Peter Henry’s account is important for the dramatic retelling of Henry’s capture by the Indians and his rescue by Captain Brady. The Narrative of Captain Spencer’s Records covers the Revolution and the following ten years with an account of Col. Williamson’s massacre of Moravian Indians. The Recollections of Stephen Burkam, who marched with Col. Williamson and William Crawford recounts both sieges of Wheeling in detail.

by Cecil B. Hartley.  Softbound, 320 pages, 5" x 8".  A facsimile reprint of the scarce 1st edition, with a new introduction.  The first and still the most accurate biography of Lewis Wetzel.  This work also includes extensive biographical information on  other famous frontiersmen: Simon Kenton, Benjamin Logan, Samuel Brady, Isaac Shelby, Jesse Hughes, Isaac Williams Robert Patterson, and others.  Never previously reprinted.

by Thomas D. Clark. Soft bound, 208 pages, 6" x 9". No part of American history is more exciting than the 1770's, when Europeans first settled west of the Appalachian mountains in the land now known as Kentucky. Simon Kenton's story is synonymous with the story of that era. Kenton explored Kentucky and became an expert woodsman. This book details prime examples of his skill and heroism. From his daring rescue of Daniel Boone and assistance to George Rogers Clark through his capture and eventual escape from the Indians, Kenton's role as Indian scout remains forever a part of Kentucky's history.

Edited by Dale Payne. Softbound, 124 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". A continuation of the adventures of daily life and the struggle for survival as told by those who lived during this fabulous time in our nation's history. Thomas Rideout's details of his captivity by the Shawnee; accompany Joseph Tomlinson as he establishes one of the first settlements on the Ohio River; early times in middle Tennessee with John Carr; and hear first hand accounts of the experiences of Indian spies along the Ohio River.

by William Hintzon. Softbound, 390 pages, 6" x 9". Boone, Wetzel, Kenton, Clark, Zane, Crawford . . . the famous names from a dramatic era in American history. Their stories are here with background details in a readable, yet educational form. The authorhelps sort through the conflicting historical records to reach the most likely view of early Ohio valley history.