(Pickering) Clarfield, Gerald H.,
TIMOTHY PICKERING AND
THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
Pittsburgh., 1980. NEW, still in shrinkwrap. "Traces Pickerings long career in
early national, political, military and diplomatic affairs. 320 pages.
(Originally in print at $49.95).
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Prucha, Francis Paul.
GUIDE TO THE MILITARY
POSTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Madison, Wisconsin.: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1966. As new
condition. 11x8. Very minor flaws to jacket. Original "$7.50" price still
intact on jacket flap. Originally published in 1964, this is the Second
Printing from 1966, with a number of corrections.
~~~ Includes the following: ~A
brief chronological history of the expansion and contraction of the military
frontier; ~An alphabetical catalog of military posts of every description:
forts, camps, barracks & cantonments; ~A chronological series of cartographs
showing the distribution of regular army troops; ~A set of detailed two-color
maps locating the posts in their topographical setting; ~An outline of army
territorial commands; ~An extensive bibliography on military posts; ~A
selection of 18 etchings & photographic plates ilustrating the military
frontier. The material has been gathered from the official records of the War
Department and the cartographic collections of the National Archives. This one
reference book presents information hiteherto scattered in many places. It will
serve both the scholar and the general reader as a brief, accurate encyclopedia
of army posts from 1789 to 1895. Maps, etchings, photographs, appendices,
bibliography, 178 pages.
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(Quincy), McCaughey, Robert A.,
JOSIAH QUINCY, 1772-1864:
The Last Federalist.
NEW copy. First Edition. Dust jacket in mylar protector.
(Harvard University Press, 1974). Extensive notes, index, 264 pages. No. 90 in the Harvard
Historical Studies series.
~~~ Josiah Quincy was a United States Congressman, the second mayor of Boston, and the fifteenth
president of Harvard Univesity.
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Richardson, Robert H.
TILTON TERRITORY: A
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE.
Dorrance & Company, 1977., NF/NF. Nearly mint.
DJ in mylar protector. "Warren County, Jefferson County,
Ohio~ 1775-1838". Photographs, bibliography, index, 300 pp.
An account of one family on the Virginia and Ohio frontiers.
$35.00
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$9950.00
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
THE WINNING OF THE WEST
. The Daniel Boone Edition, one of only 200 numbered sets, with tipped-in original manuscript page by author. In four volumes.
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The early republic period is covered in Volume Three: The Founding of
the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 (339 pages) and in
Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 (363 pages).
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Scott, Pamela,
TEMPLE OF LIBERTY:
Building the Capital for a New Nation.
NEW copy.
Trade PAPERBACK. 8.5x11. (Oxford University Press., 1995). Glossy paper throughout. Profusely
illustrated, color plates. Notes, bibliography, index, 159
pages.
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