1876 "Our Western Border, One Hundred Years Ago"

Item Details

An antique hardcover edition of Our Western Border, One Hundred Years Ago, by Charles McKnight, published 1887 by J.C. McCurdy & Co. of Philadelphia. It is a collection of frontier stories from the ‘Heroic Age of the Border’, defined in the preface as 1774 – 1794, in Ohio, Kentucky and other areas just west of the Appalachians which were being opened to settlement in the wake of the American Revolution. It is illustrated with engravings and bound in an illustrated brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering.

Condition

- moderate cover wear, loose/cracked hinges, interior is clean, bindings are solid.

Dimensions

Item #

17CIN474-208