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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.

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.