American Memory Being a Mirror of the Stirring and Picturesque Past of Americans and the American Nation ... Together with Loving Studies and First Accounts of Many Things Uniquely American ... Set Down in the Vigorous Prose of Those who Saw and Experienced These Things

"... Reflecting the forest and the Indian, the colonist and the hearth, the seventeenth century wilderness captivities, the wars, emigrations and adventures of a people, also the winning of independence and the making of the Union, the life of the great rivers, the prairies, and the plains, the nation divided and re-united, & [i.e., and] the emergence of the present, together with loving studies and first accounts of may things uniquely American, the Indian corn, tobacco, the wild turkey, the rattlesnake, the passenger pigeon, and the plains buffalo ; set down in the vigorous prose of those who saw and experienced these things"--T.p.