Early Western Travels 1748 1846 Vol 9

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331326956
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Vol. 6 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Vol. 6: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Henry Marie Brackenridge, traveller, author, statesman, jurist, had a long and varied career. Born at Pittsburg in 1786, one of his earliest memories was the Whiskey Rebel lion, in which his father, an eminent lawyer of that town, was a prominent actor. In later years, the son's researches into his parent's part in this incident, bore fruit in his H is tory of Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, corn monly called the Whiskey Insurrection, 1794 (pittsburg, 1859) Henry Brackenridge has also given to the world an auto biography, in the work entitled Recollections of Persons and Places in the West (philadelphia, from which we ascertain that at the age of seven years he was sent to learn French among the Creoles of Louisiana Territory. Having spent three years at the village of Ste. Genevieve where his French was acquired at the expense of his English, which for a time was quite forgotten he returned to Pittsburg, where his further education was conducted chiefly under his father's supervision. 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.