On the Frontier With Colonel Antes: Or the Struggle for Supremacy of the Red and White Races in Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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In the studies connected with the preparation of the book A German Hero of Pennsylvania, published some fifteen years ago, the author was impressed with the fact that justice had never been given the Antes family in the history of the development of Pennsylvania. The welcome that book received, and the en dorsement of it by many Of the most accurate writers of colonial history, led the author to prepare on a more extended scale a statement of the services the sons of Henry Antes rendered the Commonwealth.
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In the studies connected with the preparation of the book A German Hero of Pennsylvania, published some fifteen years ago, the author was impressed with the fact that justice had never been given the Antes family in the history of the development of Pennsylvania. The welcome that book received, and the en dorsement of it by many Of the most accurate writers of colonial history, led the author to prepare on a more extended scale a statement of the services the sons of Henry Antes rendered the Commonwealth.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This 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.
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Where it has been impossible to illustrate by other than imaginary pictures, the most searching care has been given to the selection of the views as near the fact as is possible to obtain.
Pictures opposite the numbers marked, except cases marked.
Frontispiece, the author of the book, Edwin MacMinn. From a half-tone made by "Harper Bros.," of New York.
Page 22. The Wissahickon, near Cleaver's Mill, formerly Dewees' Mill.
Kindly loaned by Mr. William H.Richardson, who has so successfully photographed the scene.
Page 25. Mt. St. Joseph Convent and Academy.
Kindly loaned by the Mother Superior. The sides of the buildings presented are facing the spot occupied by the Antes-Dewees Mill.
Page 41. Zeisberger Preaching to the Indians.
This is a photographic reproduction of the famous painting of Prof. E. Schuessele, in the possession of the Moravian Church, at Bethlehem. The photography was by Julius Sachse, and the half-tone work is a masterpiece by Gatchell and Manning. It was to engrave this celebrated painting that John Sartain did his best work.
Among the plates selected and prepared by the late John F. Meginnes to illustrate his books on the West Branch history, were several which have been generously placed at our service by Mrs. Meginnes. They are as follows;
Page 82. Shikellimy.
Page 338. A Stockade Fort to Protect Settlers from Indians.
The Weapons of a Frontier Scout.
These were the property of Robert Covenhoven.
Page 316. Settler's Home in Muncy, in 1770.
Maclay's House in Sunbury, 1773-
Page 234. Caltrop.
Page 236. Map of Indian Purchases.
Page 328. Derr's Mill
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