TALES,
Traditions and Romance
OF
BORDER
AND
REVOLUTIONARY TIMES.

In this volume we offer the reader a combination of twoof the most fascinating qualities which a book can possess.It is almost strictly historical, and yet as marvelous as themost romantic fiction. The sketches and incidents here gatheredare all authenticated; yet many of them, in their wonderfulinterest and pathos, exceed the bounds of fancy. Theybelong to two classes: those which are connected with theRevolution, and those which chronicle the peculiar events ofour Frontier History. While they will absorb the attentionof the most intelligent reader, they are charmingly adapted toattract young people, who will be both instructed and delighted.Boys will find examples worthy of emulation, andwill learn to appreciate those traits of character which madethe glory and the progress of our young republic; while girlsmay gain dignity of mind by contemplating the devotion,courage and endurance of the women of those days.

An insight will be afforded into the customs of the Indians,and into the manner of life of the early settlers, whose dangersand difficulties, privations and calamities, are almost incredible.Many of the most thrilling events in our national history areherein related, along with the fearless adventures of our bravepioneers, and the perils and catastrophes which befell thefamilies of those whose protectors were absent on the field ofbattle, or whose cabins failed to find sufficient defense in therifles of their owners.

ivThe reader will linger over these pages, thrilled by theconsciousness that the scenes so vividly brought before himare real—a living, abiding part of our existence as a people.The "storied Rhine" and "classic Italy" are laid and overlaidthickly with traditions which give a vague interest tosoil, ruin, mountain and sky. We, also, have our traditions—differentin kind, but of wild and marvelous interest—andthe day shall come when the banks of the fair Ohio, the blueMuskingum, the picturesque Allegany, the noble Mississippi,shall be trodden by reverent feet, while the thoughts of thetraveler speed back to the days of the lurking red-man andthe bold ranger. It is no mean duty of the chronicler totreasure up the threads of a thousand little facts, and weavethem into a web which shall perpetuate them for the future.

The publishers believe that this volume will not only be afavorite in the hands of men, young and old, but will have itsappropriate place by the fireside.