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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Philip Seymour, Or, Pioneer Life In Richland County, Ohio: Founded On Facts

Philip Seymour, Or, Pioneer Life In Richland County, Ohio: Founded On Facts

Francis m'Gaw, James

Paperback

Historical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)General World History

ISBN10: 9354508464
ISBN13: 9789354508462
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Ohio was a grid of roads, it was a gamble of timber, weather, and neighbourly trust. Philip Seymour, Or, Pioneer Life In Richland County, Ohio: Founded On Facts draws you into that making of place. Every acre carries a story. James Francis M'Gaw offers an american pioneer biography rooted in 19th century local history, built from recollection and report. Part frontier life nonfiction narrative and part community record, it follows ohio frontier settlement as families carve pioneer farming homesteads from the woods, build mills and meeting houses, and shape early american community life. Set in richland county ohio, it belongs to the wider old northwest territory history and illuminates the pressures and possibilities of antebellum midwest history. The prose is plain-spoken and observant, attentive to work, weather, kinship, and the everyday bargains that turn strangers into neighbours. For casual readers, it is immersive social history with the intimacy of a life story; for researchers, a genealogy research primary source and a dependable local historians reference book, rich in names, places, and remembered detail. Its value is archival as well as narrative, showing how a community described itself while the frontier still sat within living memory. A quiet cornerstone for Midwestern collections and family shelves alike today, too. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, presented as a complete unabridged reprint for libraries that honour the American past.

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