Author: PATTIE, JAMES O.; FLINT, TIMOTHY (EDITOR)
Title: The Personal Narrative of James o. Pattie of Kentucky
Description: Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and border on front cover, fore and bottom edge deckle, t.e.g. Illustrated with a B&W frontispiece and several additional full-page engravings. In June of 1824 James Ohio Pattie, then in his early 20's, left Kentucky with his father, Sylvester, and headed west. This is the account of their action-packed travels - fighting Indians, mining, rescuing women, fur-trapping, fighting more Indians, serving time in prison, working for a corrupt governor, administering Smallpox vaccines, - and finally returning home after six years of virtually non-stop adventure, broken only by occasional romance. Pattie dictated his story to newspaperman Timothy Flint in 1830, and the book came out a year later. History loses track of Pattie after that. He probably died in a cholera epidemic that began near Augusta, Kentucky, in June 1833. Gilt on spine faded, former owner's name stamped on ffep; else near fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 28. Engravings. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (xliii), 428 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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