Pioneers of the Western Reserve

Lee and Shepard: Boston, 1888. Second Edition. 8vo brown cloth covered boards with black decorative rules at top and bottom of covers. Title stamped in gold. Beveled edges. 350 pp, plus 2 pp. publisher's ads.Flower patterned endpapers. Previous owner's rubber stamped name and address on ffep. Otherwise beautiful copy, tight, clean and looking almost like it is just off the press.. Content: Western Reserve; The Eries; Col. Bradstreet's Expedition; Boyhood of Brady and Girty; Subsequent Life; Brady Captured by the Indians; Origin of Moravian Missions; Surveyors arrive at Conneaut, July 4, 1796; General Cleaveland with a Detachment of Surveyors leaves Conneaut; Additional Settlers at Cleveland; First Election precinct; General Hull's Surrender; Cleveland and Vicinity; The Cleveland Bar in 1828; The Buffalo Company's Purchase; Warren and its First Settlers; The Whiskey Debauch at Salt Springs; Rev. Joseph Badger, Mission and Career; Harpersfield and its First Settlers; Woodmen of Geneva; Chardon- Burton-First Settlers, Their Trials and Hardships; Ravenna; Arrival of the Young Magistrate and his Legal Adviser from Warren; Characteristics of Huron County; Harrisville and its Founder; The Grand Circular Hunt; Lorain County; How Erie and Sandusky derived their Names; David Hudson and his Career; Akron so named by Olcott; Early Settlement at Mentor; Joseph Smith- Discovery and Translation of the Golden Plates or Book of Mormon; Ottawa and the Islands; Battle of Lake Erie; Mahoning- Why So Named; The Happy Valley; The Western Reserve - Her Pioneer Life and her Modern Life. . . ."it has been the principal aim of the writer to portray each remarkable incidents in the experiences of the original pioneers as he has been able to gather from sources which seemed worthy of credence. It is believed that these incidents have not only a historical value which justifies their preservation, but a degree of dramatic interest which will be appreciated as adding zest to the stern realities of Western pioneer life."