Excerpt: ...But it was likely to be broken up, so that the materials in it could be used for building purposes. Before sawmills became common, lumber was a precious commodity, and hundreds of pioneer cabins in the Ohio Valley were built partly or wholly of the boards and timbers taken from the flatboats of their owners. Even the "gunnels" were sometimes used in Cincinnati as foundations for houses. In later days the flatboat, if in reasonably good condition, was not unlikely to be sold to persons engaged in trading down the ...
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Excerpt: ...But it was likely to be broken up, so that the materials in it could be used for building purposes. Before sawmills became common, lumber was a precious commodity, and hundreds of pioneer cabins in the Ohio Valley were built partly or wholly of the boards and timbers taken from the flatboats of their owners. Even the "gunnels" were sometimes used in Cincinnati as foundations for houses. In later days the flatboat, if in reasonably good condition, was not unlikely to be sold to persons engaged in trading down the Mississippi. Loaded with grain, flour, meats, and other backwoods products, it would descend to Natchez or New Orleans, where its cargo could be transferred to ocean-going craft. But in any case its end was the same; for it would not have been profitable, even had it been physically possible, to move the heavy, ungainly craft upstream over long distances, in order to keep it continuously in service. Chapter VII. Pioneer Days And Ways Arrived on the lower Ohio, or one of its tributaries, the pioneer looked out upon a land of remarkable riches. It was not a Mexico or a Peru, with emblazoned palaces and glittering temples, nor yet a California, with gold-flecked sands. It was merely an unending stretch of wooded hills and grassy plains, bedecked with majestic forests and fructifying rivers and lakes. It had no treasures save for the man of courage, industry, and patience; but for such it held home, broad acres, liberty, and the coveted opportunity for social equality and advancement. The new country has been commonly thought of, and referred to by writers on the history of the West, as a "wilderness"; and offhand, one might suppose that the settlers were obliged literally to hew their way through densely grown vegetation to the spots which they selected for their homes. In point of fact, there were great areas of upland
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1977, Glasgow, Brook & Co. :: United States Publishers Association
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. ix, 220 pp. Light rubbing to the corners of the covers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Roosevelt Edition."
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Extra-illustrated edition Vol 19 The Chronicles of America Series
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Yale University Press
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1920
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English
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Very good. No dust jacket. 220 p. Includes illustrations. Extra-illustrated Edition, Blue hard cover, gilt top of pages, tissue frontis, book in VERY GOOD condition, Vol 19, Yale University Press, 1919 copyright, 1920 date on title page, 220 pages, approx 8x5 inches. From private collection.
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Fine in NF jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in series-uniform bright blue (not navy) cloth with elaborate gilt, white and black figures to front and spine, in grey card jacket with black titles and figures matching book design, small 8vo. Chronicles of America, v.19 of 50. x + 220pp. Index, bibliographical note. Tissue-protected frontis and plates, foldout map. Fine/NF. Book has mild toning to endpapers; else as new: clean and unmarked with especially bright, sharp titles and figures. The scarce jacket has light toning to spine with no effect on titles and figures; internally tape-repaired 1/2" closed tear upper rear edge near spine; small label shadow lower rear panel; else fine. Jacket in Brodart.
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