Author: VERCHERES DE BOUCHERVILLE, Thomas
Title: War on the Detroit: The Chronicles of Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville and the Capitulation by an Ohio Volunteer
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1940. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. xxvi, 347pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 2 maps (one foldout). Near fine. Endpapers a bit age toned. A bright and lovely copy of the 38th volume in the noted "Lakeside Classics" series of historical reprints. This is the second time only that the journal of French fur trader/merchant/militia officer Vercheres (1784-1857) was published in English, the first being 1935. "The Capitulation" by unnamed author was first published in Chillicothe in 1812 and editor Quaife questions whether the "Ohio Volunteer" James Foster (named on book’s spine and list of Lakeside titles) who some identify as the author is actually correct. .

Keywords: Americana Military History


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