SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS,

Excerpt from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the West, Vol. 1 of 2 When the materials shall be accumulated, when the loose facts and scattered reminiscences, which are now żoating along the stream of tradition, shall be gather ed together, then may such a work be prepared as will be creditable to our country; and then will the pioneers, the warriors, and the patriots of the west, take the proud station which they deserve, among the illustrious founders of the American republic. In the mean while, we can only aim at presenting to the public such fragments of history as may be rescued from oblivion by individuals; and such observations as the few, who are curious in collecting the statistics of their own times, may have been able to accumulate. 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.