This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...others firmly tied to these by thongs of hickory bark formed girders, braces, laths, and rafters. This frame was covered with large pieces of elm bark seven or eight feet long and three or four feet wide; which being pressed flat and well dried to prevent their curling, fastened to the poles by thongs of bark, formed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...others firmly tied to these by thongs of hickory bark formed girders, braces, laths, and rafters. This frame was covered with large pieces of elm bark seven or eight feet long and three or four feet wide; which being pressed flat and well dried to prevent their curling, fastened to the poles by thongs of bark, formed the weather boarding and roof of the cabin. At its western end was a narrow doorway about six feet high, closed when necessary by a single piece of bark placed beside it, and fastened by a brace, set either within or on the outside as occasion required. Within, separated by a bark partition were two apartments, of which the inner one, seldom entered but by the old squaw, was occupied as a pantry, a spare bed room, and at times as a sanctuary, where she performed her incantations; the other, having on each side a low frame covered with bark and overspread with deerskins serving both for seats and bedsteads, was in common use by the family, both as a lodging, sitting, cooking, and eating room. On the ground in the center of this apartment was placed the fire; and over it, suspended from the ridge-pole in the middle of an aperture left for the passage of the smoke, was a wooden trammel for the convenience of cooking. The site of this cabin was truly pleasant. It stood a few rods from the northern bank of the Maumee with its side fronting that river, on an elevated spot, from which the ground first gently descending about one hundred yards northward thence gradually ascended to the top of the tableland bounding the narrow bottom, extending about two miles above and the same distance below. On the high ground was a beautiful open wood, principally of oak and hickory; while the bottom, with the exception of about five acres above the cabin cultivated...
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Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 188 pages. A touch of light shelf wear to slightly storage rubbed dust jacket, otherwise better than very good. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. A true narrative of the capture of Oliver M. Spencer by the Indians in 1793 in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, written by himself. The book appears unread. Protected in a new Mylar cover.; 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall.
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Very Good. Small 8vo. Cloth, no dj. Dark green cloth with gilt decorations, title. 188 numbered pp. Head of text block gilt. Minor shelf wear to boards; a few small specks along the fore-edge. Light creasing at ends of spine; some scuffing just above tail, presumably from removed sticker. Minor dampstain to front pastedown, possibly from glue. Else fine. Despite the scuffing to spine, a handsome copy with bright, clean internals. Very Good.
