Modern direct reprint of the antique original in very good condtion.

Authors, Creators:   Filson, John 1747 to 1788; Lyman Copeland Draper; Draper Manuscripts, American Journeys.

Title,  Details:    Recollections On Encounters With Indians : 1786

From Hand Written Diary.  Early History, Shows Original Manuscript Pages In Color With Transcriptions Facing, American Settlers Personal Account Of Early American History And Settlement Of Kentucky, and Documented True Accounts.

48 pages. Modern soft cover edition in very good, like new condition. Overall a wonderful copy of this piece of American culture and history. Slight wear at edges from being moved around the bookshop. Excellent resource, informative and enjoyable reading.

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Condition:   Very good condition.

-- Defects:  General wear from being at our shop, minimal.

Related Details:    About Author: John Filson (c. 1747-1788) was born in Pennsylvania about 1747 and sent as a teenager to Maryland for a classical education. During and after the Revolution he tried his hand at farming, teaching, and land surveying. In 1783 the infant U.S. government began to reward veterans of the Revolution with free land. Qualified individuals were given receipts, called warrants, that could be exchanged for acreage in the West. Most veterans never intended to go west, however, and they sold these land warrants to real estate speculators. 

In this way Filson soon acquired the right to 13,500 acres in Kentucky. He settled in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1784, where he returned to teaching and surveying, and met Daniel Boone and other early white settlers. In 1784, hoping to induce more eastern pioneers to come to the region (and buy his land), Filson wrote the book given here. 

Because at the time there were no printers in Kentucky, he traveled back to Maryland to have it set in type. It was published later that year with a ghost-written autobiography of Daniel Boone. The book successfully extolled the virtues of the west, the appendix established Boone in the popular mind as the quintessential frontiersman, and the map led thousands of settlers through Cumberland Gap into the trans-Appalachian region over the next two decades. While traveling in southern Illinois in 1786 he was attacked by its Indian owners and barely escaped with his life. On a surveying trip further into Ohio later that year his party was attacked again by the Shawnee. 

Filson fled into the woods and was never heard from again. (Source: American Journeys)

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