Tome, Philip (1782-1855) Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunt. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome, Fifteen Years I

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Tome, Philip (1782-1855) Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunt. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome, Fifteen Years Interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake Chiefs on the Allegany River. Buffalo: for the Author, 1854. First edition, octavo, viii, 238 pp., woodcut frontispiece of an eight-point buck by Wightman bound opposite title, woodcut tailpiece of deer on page 185, contemporary Buffalo ownership inscription of Charles L. Prescott on ffep, bound in full contemporary publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind on both boards, lettered in gilt on front board, a bit abraded at extremities, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

"In the early settlement of the country, about the year 1792, the manner of life of the settlers, and the hardships and privations they were called upon to endure, rendered them capable of bearing up under fatigue and exposure, which those more tenderly reared would be unable to surmount. At that time, panthers, wolves, bears, elk, deer, and other wild animals filled the forest, and fish in great abundance the streams. A person could go up the stream to where a dam had been built, and at any time with a hook and line could in an hour catch trout sufficient for a large family a day."
Estimate $800-1,200


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