Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)Croghan, George
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Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
Croghan, George
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
By A. DOUGHTY, Litt. D. (Laval), Joint Librarian of the Legislature,
Quebec, in collaboration with G. W. PARMELEE, D. C. L., Secretary of the
Department of Public Instruction, Quebec
_With Plans, Portraits, and Views_
This is the first ample history of the campaign of 1759, and the most
extensive and important monograph that has so far been written on any
episode in the annals of New France. But the interest of the subject
outstrips all bounds that are merely local. Montcalm’s defeat and the
English occupation of Quebec were great events in the history of the
whole continent. In the world-struggles between England and France they
rank even before the battle of Plassey.
A LIMITED EDITION of 525 sets was printed, of which only 19 remain for
sale. Complete in 6 volumes, small quarto, handsomely printed, and bound
in blue cloth. Price $50.00, net.
“Indispensable to every future historian of the Seven Years’ War in
America.... The cartography of the campaign has been largely supplemented
by Mr. Doughty’s discoveries.... The mechanical features of these volumes
deserve high praise.”—_New York Evening Post._
“Merits the thanks of all those interested in probably the most famous
incident of our history.”—Sir JOHN G. BOURINOT, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Litt.D.
“A hundred and one writers have treated this well-worn subject, but it
has been left for Messrs. Doughty and Parmelee to go over the whole
ground and present us with a final and authoritative record.”—_The Daily
Chronicle_, London, England.
* * * * *
“The bare title hardly conveys an idea of the interesting lore embraced
in this admirably carried out study of the roads and their part in the
development of the country.”—_Boston Globe._
The Historic Highways of America
by ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the
evolution of its highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.
Comprising the following volumes:
I—Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
II—Indian Thoroughfares.
III—Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
IV—Braddock’s Road.
V—The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
VI—Boone’s Wilderness Road.
VII—Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent
VIII—Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
IX—Waterways of Westward Expansion.
X—The Cumberland Road.
XI, XII—Pioneer Roads of America, two volumes.
XIII, XIV—The Great American Canals, two volumes.
XV—The Future of Road-Making in America.
XVI—Index.
Sixteen volumes, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt tops. A LIMITED EDITION
only printed direct from type, and the type distributed. Each volume
handsomely printed in large type on Dickinson’s hand-made paper, and
illustrated with maps, plates, and facsimiles.
Published a volume each two months, beginning September, 1902.
PRICE, volumes 1 and 2, $2.00 net each; volumes 3 to 16, $2.50 net each.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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