The Big Sandy Valley, Vol. 1: A History of the People and Country From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Big Sandy Valley, Vol. 1: A History of the People and Country From the Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeThe author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The several narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous people who forced their way westward, ever westward, whether in hope of gain or in answer to the call of 'the wild, and who, in so doing, wrote their names with their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio to the Columbia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.