The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800

xiii, 432 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles, gilt emblem on front board, top edge gilt. A history of New York in the early colonial period, with chapters on: Indians and Fur Traders; Missionaries and the French War, 1650-1769; Land Titles and Pioneers, 1679-1774; The Border Wars Begun, 1776-1777; Overthrow of the Frontier, 1777-1778; The Sullivan Expedition, 1779; Last Years of the War, 1780-1783; The Restoration of the Frontier, 1782-1800. Bibliography and index follow text. Includes two maps and fifteen plates.