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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.
294 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
This book by Judge Anderson, though
intended to be the memoirs
of his predecessors, is really an
historical monograph of wide interest
and value to a large field of readers,
inasmuch as the main personages
dealt with lived during important epochs
of our state and national his-
tory, and came in personal contact with
most of the leading characters
of their time. Judge Anderson, the
author, who served under President
Lincoln as United States consul at
Hamburg, and has had a most con-
spicuous career, is a gentleman of
unusual culture and scholarly at-
tainments, an excellent writer, giving a
decided literary finish and
flavor to the pages of his book which,
it goes without saying, he wrote
con amore. The work contains a vast
amount of interesting corre-
spondence, comprising letters from many
of the distinguished officials
of our government. These letters throw
sidelights upon the events of
their time, and furnish the basis for a
great many annotating and
explanatory statements by the author. It
has much of Ohio history
which is not easily found elsewhere. For
instance, it tells when all the
treaties with the Ohio Indians were
made, and gives much reliable data
respecting Ohio. Indians, with an
account of the Delaware, the Seneca,
and the Wyandot Indians -the last
Indians to leave the state-and their
reservations in Ohio, Kansas, and Indian
Territory. It tells the story
of the celebrated slave case tried in
Marion in 1839. The work com-
prises letters from prominent men and
women, written during the Civil
War and throwing much information of
great value upon the events
which they describe with the vividness
incident to personal experience.
It recounts many important and hitherto
untold, incidents occurring dur-
ing the war of the great rebellion,
anecdotes of great generals and ac-
counts of some of the chief battles, and
is especially valuable as setting
forth the forceful part which Ohio
enacted in that greatest of civil wars.
Much is said about very many of the
leading Ohio families, those
who were active in the pioneer
settlement of the state, and those who
were conspicuous in its subsequent
development, and those who became
prominent figures in our national
history. Mr. Anderson has the literary
touch and delineation of an artist; his
portrait sketches of the gov-
ernors of Ohio and prominent characters
in the career of the state are
deftly and judiciously done; he presents
much about these people never
before published and arouses anew the
desire to peruse the lives of our
great state characters.
Judge Anderson is to be congratulated
upon his achievement in
the scholarly detail of his work and his
success in enshrining his own
family with leading historical events as
a background to their eventful
lives. The book is made especially
valuable by a very complete and
satisfactory index. It is published by
the press of F. J. Heer, Columbus,
Ohio.