Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Before Cincinnati had boulevards, it had bargains, surveys, and hard-won promises on a river edge. Here are the missing pages.Francis W. Miller assembles a documentary history collection of the city’s earliest years, drawing on hitherto unpublished records to illuminate Cincinnati founding history and the wider Miami Purchase. This is not a sweeping romance of the frontier, but a local history book built from deeds, letters, petitions, and official papers: the working evidence behind an Ohio frontier settlement. For readers who like their past tangible, Miller guides you through Miami Purchase documents, shifting claims, and the practical anxieties of building a town in the early Ohio Valley, when the Northwest Territory period was still being argued line by line. It is an absorbing read, and a rigorous historical reference volume for local history researchers, anyone tracing genealogy and land records, and collectors seeking American frontier primary sources.Its significance lies in the way it preserves Midwest pioneer narratives without smoothing away their contradictions, showing how communities were negotiated into being through paperwork as much as through courage. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint--a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. Whether you are a curious resident, a student of settlement patterns, or a classic-history collector who values original documentation, this volume keeps Cincinnati’s beginnings close, precise, and alive. It rewards browsing and supports citation, linking names to parcels, rivers, and decisions that shaped Ohio.
