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reliable history only can be produced.
This book is especially interesting
at this time owing to the revival of
interest in the achievements of
George Rogers Clark in the Northwest
Territory and the voyages of
research and exploration by William
Clark, a younger brother of George
Rogers, who, with Meriwether Lewis, led
the expedition across the
continent from 1803 to 1806, by which
the extent and resources of the
Louisiana Purchase were first made known
to the American people.
The account of the conquest of the
Illinois by George Rogers Clark
as it is told by Mr. Butterfield has all
the fascination and intense interest
of a romance while it portrays the
exploits of a fearless and patriotic
leader who saved the great Northwest
Territory to the American Republic.
George Rogers Clark was known as
"The Washington of the West." He
was a huntsman of the trackless forest
interior of Kentucky, who with the
soul of a patriot, the bravery of an
American soldier and the mind of a
statesman, hastened on foot, through six
hundred miles of wilderness,
to Williamsburg, the capital of
Virginia. There he obtained audience
with Patrick Henry, then governor of
Virginia. Clark proposed to strike
the vast power of Great Britain in the
Northwest and save that magnifi-
cent territory to American independence.
His plans were appreciated and
approved, but troops could not be spared
him from the Continental army;
they were needed to a man in the East.
Clark gathered two hundred
Virginia and Pennsylvania backwoodsmen
and while the sun of spring
was melting the snows of Valley Forge
and hope and courage were
again animating the heart of Washington,
Clark set out on that famous
expedition for the capture of the
interior northwest posts of Great Britain.
It was the campaign of the 'Rough
Riders' of the Revolution. It was
the dash of Sheridan in the Shenandoah.
It was Sherman's 'march to
the sea,' through the interior of the
enemy's country. That campaign
of Clark broke the backbone of British
strength in the West. The British
posts of Illinois and Indiana were all
taken save Detroit. The North-
west was secured and preserved to the
United States.
The book has a scholarly introduction by
Mr. W. H. Hunter, trus-
tee of the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society.
Price, post-paid $1.50. Address all
orders to F. J. Heer, Printer
and Publisher, Columbus, Ohio.
JUDGE THOMAS J. ANDERSON AND WIFE.
"Life and Letters of Judge Thomas
J. Anderson and Wife." in-
cluding a few letters from children and
others; mostly written during
the Civil War; a history; carefully
edited and copiously annotated by
James H. Anderson, LL. B., life member
and trustee of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society,
and president of the Old Northwest
Genealogical Society.