Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Historical Sketches of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of events in the Coos Country and vicinity, principally included between the years 1754 and 1785This book presents a historical account of the Coos Country region, emphasizing the significance of preserving local history. It covers early settlements, indigenous relations, religious developments, significant events, and notable figures such as Col. Jacob Bailey, various settlers, and military leaders. The author 'writes of things grave, things trivial, and things important, and this with a view to present as nearly as possible, to the present and future generations, the circumstances, views, feelings, habits and customs of our ancestors.'Rev. Grant Powers visited the surviving first settlers in Coos country and towns in the vicinity. 'He was careful to take down their statements in their presence, and they were interrogated upon almost all subjects here introduced. Some made further communications under their own handwriting, and he has obtained written and published documents, as far as he was able, to aid him in this work. But as it has been his main design to go back of written and published documents, and to bring to light things which would never have appeared, unless they were taken up in a work of this kind, he could avail himself of those documents but in a limited degree; and in general, they are introduced as corroborative testimony, or explanatory, merely.' Three appendices (The Boar and The Bear, An Adventurous Visit, and Deed of the Coos Country) conclude this work. The index cites all names and places mentioned in the text.Rev. Grant Powers, A.M.(1840, ?), 2025 , 5.5' x 8.5', paper, index, 246 pp.ISBN: 9781556130229101-P3022
