Charles S. Wood

Camp-Fires on The Scioto; Showing the Courage and Hardships of the Winners of the West

Boston and Chicago: W.A. Wilde, 1905. 2. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in light gray cloth lettered in black and decorated with red, white and black design of a Native American in full headdress sitting before a small campfire. 319 pp. illustrations by Chase Emerson. A tight, bright copy. From the preface: "..the story is based on the historical records of Nathaniel Massie's surveys of the Virginia Military District of Ohio. The time is from 1791 to 1796, that preparetory period in early Ohio history when the hoistility of the Indians retarded the settlement of the territory..." Fine. Item #E25214

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