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WIDTH=625><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=625 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=625> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+3">Hannah Fowler</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I><FONT SIZE="+2">Early Heroine of the Frontier</FONT></I></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER>A Book Review</P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I>By Helen E. McKinney</I></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>``The woman hunched by the ashes of the dead fire, her big shoulders squared forward. With a shingle of sycamore bark she raked back and forth, searching for a live coal."</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>And so begins the story of <I>Hannah Fowler </I>by Janice Holt Giles. Written in 1956, <I>Hannah Fowler</I> is the second book in Giles' The American Frontier Series. The series depicts women and men of the 1700s. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Hannah Fowler is a fictionalized female counterpart of Daniel Boone. ``She can do everything," said Clara L. Metzmeier, Professor of English at Campbellsville University. Metzmeier is also president of the Giles Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Giles' log home in Adair County, KY and keeping Giles' literature in the public eye.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Hannah does live up to her reputation: she cooks, builds a lean-to, hunts, weathers the terrible winter storms of 1779-80, is captured by Indians and escapes while pregnant, and bares several children. Hannah is a strong character that gains even more strength over the course of the novel, proving what the human body and spirit can endure when pressed to the limit.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>From the beginning, Hannah had it in her to tame the wilderness, one feminine step at a time. She set out for adventure with her father, Samuel Moore, and lost him to blood poisoning enroute to Kentucky. By the novel's end, she has come full circle with herself, strengthening her inner character as well. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Her marriage to Tice Fowler is one that was probably quite common on the frontier. They married for convenience: Hannah wanted to escape a barrage of suitors at Logan's Fort and be left alone, and Tice wanted to gain a companion to ease his workload. Had a young, single woman been able to claim land for herself at that time, Hannah would have left the fort and planted a small crop in order to claim a pre-emption for deed. Hannah knew she could make it alone, and Tice, ``just never seems to need anything more than he's got."</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=579 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=292 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=127 HEIGHT=40><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=127 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=235></TD> <TD WIDTH=165><IMG ID="Picture33" HEIGHT=235 WIDTH=165 SRC="../Books/Fowlersm.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=287 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=85 HEIGHT=51><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=85 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=21><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=21 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=20><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=20 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=200></TD> <TD WIDTH=161><IMG ID="Picture32" HEIGHT=200 WIDTH=161 SRC="../Books/Giles.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=4 HEIGHT=23></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=202> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><I>Janice Holt Giles from an early dust jacket photo</I></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=674 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=48 HEIGHT=41><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=48 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=626><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=626 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=626> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>B ut, he does need Hannah and together they brave the hardships many settlers faced. One particularly vivid scene in the novel is the winter of 1779-80, when wild turkeys froze while roosting. The detail and clarity with which Giles writes is wonderful. ``You know the weather by what Giles puts in her books," said Metzmeier.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Giles felt her character had to be strong, had to meet a certain criteria in a historical perspective, said Metzmeier, who also lectures through the Kentucky Humanities Council. ``Once she finished the book, she knew she had written a good book. It took a lot of energy out of her."</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Women were sparse on the frontier and their load was not an easy one to bear. Hannah shouldered as much work as any man, as all frontier females had to do. If a spouse were away on a long hunt or defending the infancy of the independent new nation, women were expected to pick up the workload at home. They didn't stand behind the walls of the fort and shake.&nbsp; </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>In addition to household duties (cooking, churning butter, spinning wool, mending clothes) they had to tend to the livestock and crops, plus ward off any would-be Indian attackers. Keep in mind, they did this while raising a brood of children upwards of ten or more in number. Raising a family is a full-time job, but added to a frontier woman's list of endless duties, it would make even the strongest of 21<SUP>st</SUP> century mothers quake. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>When two Indians stole into Hannah's home by surprise while husband Tice was away, she guessed they would take what items they could use and burn the rest with the house. ``She looked on, feeling sick at heart." Many women had to endure the horror of watching their children die and the humiliation of having their homes destroyed before their very own eyes. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>``The kettles and pots and ladles and spoons, they were as known to her as her own hands, her palms worn to their curves and fitted to them." Her mind raced as she thought of how the older Indian hacked apart the bed Tice had hewed out during the winter. ``Suddenly she was infuriated with them, plundering, destroying, mutilating her things."</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The second Indian set fire to the barn and crib, and killed the stock before setting the house on fire. As Hannah was marched away, ``She did not look backward. In her ears as she walked off was the sound of her home burning." As the crackling and hissing sounds of the fires filled her ears, she thought of the resolve it would take to return home. Even though she had nothing to physically return home to, her determination to keep her unborn child safe led her back again.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Hannah Fowler may be a fictionalized character, but she put forth many characteristics that her real-life counterparts had to possess to survive. For many of the women, strength came from within to face the dangerous perils of everyday life on the frontier. It's not easy to bury a child one day, give birth the next, and fight off an Indian the following day. This may be a slight exaggeration in some cases, but these women had to possess nerves of steel to face a constant barrage of factors that slowly chipped away at their humanity and sanity. We'll never know the sorrows our frontier mothers kept hidden away to bravely face tomorrow's hope for a better life for their family.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Hannah Fowler embodies the spirit of women on the frontier. Her bravery and fortitude led her through many everyday situations faced by real women on the frontier. One of my own distant ancestors, Catherine Surray Finnell, clutched her infant child so tightly that she almost suffocated it as she traveled by canoe down the Red River, which borders Clark and Estill Counties in Kentucky. She clamped her hand over the baby's mouth to keep it from crying out and alerting any camouflaged Indians as to the presence of white people on the river. For a time, John and Catherine Finnell lived at Fort Boonesborough.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Were it not for these real women of the frontier, we would not be here today. While it is the male surnames history books remember, we owe a lot to the silent voice of these women of the past.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Source:&nbsp; Giles, Janice Holt. <I>Hannah Fowler.</I> Boston, 1956</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=649 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=62><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=34><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=34 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=23></TD> <TD ROWSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=75><IMG ID="Picture34" HEIGHT=42 WIDTH=75 SRC="../key3.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=10></TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP WIDTH=470><IMG ID="SiteStyleLine6" HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=470 SRC="../Line.gif" BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=9></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=666 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=36><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=595><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=595 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=595> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+3">Mount Vernon Love Story&nbsp; &nbsp; </FONT>A Book by Mary Higgins Clark<I>s</I></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=412 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=72 HEIGHT=18><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=72 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=340><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=340 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=340> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I>Review by Jim Cumming</I></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=676 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=379 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=68 HEIGHT=40><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=68 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=311><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=311 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=311> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>While rummaging thru one of my favorite book stores (which I often do) I noticed on a sale table a book by Mary Higgins Clark. You know - one of the most popular novelist on today's best seller lists. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>I saw the title first <I>Mount Vernon Love Story</I>. Being a George Washington fan it caught my eye. But seeing the author I thought it might be&nbsp; just one of her romance or suspense novels. It wasn't a large book just a small story. And as I was reading the dust jacket - boy was I surprised. This little gem is a historical novel chocked full of historical facts. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=297 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=23 HEIGHT=33><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=23 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=262></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=274><IMG ID="Picture16" HEIGHT=262 WIDTH=274 SRC="../Books/george1.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=677 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=21><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=606><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=606 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=606> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Mount Vernon Love Story was Mary Higgins Clark's first novel and last (as far as I know) work of historical fiction. It was written and published in 1969 under the title <I>Aspire to the Heavens</I> which was the family motto of&nbsp; Mary Ball Washington, George's mother. All the events, dates, scenes and characters are based on historical facts. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The information researched was from presidential letters. both personal and official correspondence. Other sources include the letters of Martha Custis Washington and her family and friends and also letters from members of the army including officers and Washington's aide de camp.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=680 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=27><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=606><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=606 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=606> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Mary Higgins Clark loves history and one of her first jobs was as a script writer in 1969 for a radio station. She was writing a series for radio entitled ``Portrait of a Patriot". They were vignettes of American Presidents. And it was this research that later led her to pursue and write <I>Aspire to the Heavens</I> which was re-released in 1996 as <I>Mount Vernon Love Story.</I></P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>In her own introduction she explains why she wrote the novel.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The four love's of Washington's life were: Mount Vernon, Sally Carey Fairfax (his best friends wife) Martha DandridgeCustis, and his country. Clark really got into his head. This was one book I could not put down until I had finished it. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=672 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=324 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=41><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=364></TD> <TD WIDTH=251><IMG ID="Picture19" HEIGHT=364 WIDTH=251 SRC="../Books/george2.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=348 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=19 HEIGHT=18><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=19 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=4><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=4 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=323><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=323 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=2><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD WIDTH=323> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Clark made George Washington, a warm friendly and sincere individual. It was a side of Washington that I had not viewed before and it gave me an insight into the man, his moods and why he did some of the things he did. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>She explored his love for Sally Fairfax the wife of his friend and neighbor George William Fairfax and how he could have made one of the greatest mistakes of his life had he pursued this love.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>She details his meeting with the widow Martha Custis (whom everyone called Patsy) and the subsequent marriage. She also explores his love for the Custis children and finally his all consuming love for Mount Vernon.</P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=4 HEIGHT=17></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=329> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The story starts at the end of his second Presidential term and just before the inaguration of John Adams. While the festivities are beginning Washington begins to contemplate and reminisce on his public and private life which Clark </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=672 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=23><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=608><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=608 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=608> <P>&nbsp;handles very well. And all the while looming in his mind is his long anticipated return to Mount Vernon and his desire to once again become simply, Farmer Washington.</P> <P>Mary Higgins Clark shows the man behind the legend. A man of passion and flesh and blood, with a rare and lasting marriage she brings to life ``The Father of Our Country."</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=673 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=66 HEIGHT=23><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=66 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=607><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=607 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=607> <P>Mount Vernon LoveStory can be read by all ages. I purchased it at Barnes and Noble - or they will order it for you. </P> <P>ISBN 0-7432-2987-8 Mary Higgins Clark, Simon &amp; Schuster.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=655 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=555 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=81 HEIGHT=12><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=81 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=2><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=426><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=426 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=46><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=46 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD WIDTH=426> <P>&nbsp;</P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=4 HEIGHT=7></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=10></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP WIDTH=474><IMG ID="SiteStyleLine3" HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=474 SRC="../Line.gif" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=100 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=25 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=25 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=42></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=75><IMG ID="Picture24" HEIGHT=42 WIDTH=75 SRC="../KEY3.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=607 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=521 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=113 HEIGHT=19><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=113 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=73><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=60><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=144><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=62><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=62 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=69><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=69 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=5 WIDTH=408> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="spirit"></A><FONT SIZE="+3">The Spirit of The Border<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE="+1">by Zane Gray</FONT></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=19></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3></TD> <TD WIDTH=144> <P>Published in 1909</P> </TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=6 HEIGHT=32></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=266> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I>Review by Jim Cummings</I></P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=86 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=9 HEIGHT=98><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=9 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=120></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=77><IMG ID="Picture12" HEIGHT=120 WIDTH=77 SRC="../Books/grey.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=660 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=37><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=572><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=572 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=572> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The Spirit of The Border is Zane Gray's second in a trilogy of books written about the west. Not the far west past the Mississippi but what was once the western most part of our country - The Ohio River Valley. This story takes place at Fort Henry (present day West Virginia) in the late 18th century - in the 1780's. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The Spirit of The Border is Zane Gray's second historical novel based on the lives of his ancestors and taken from the family bible and other family records handed down through the generations. Gray wrote this book in 1909 just a little over 100 years after the actual events took place. He also used as a source his great, great grandmother Zane. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=664 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=85 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=85 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=579><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=579 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=579> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Gray's first book, <I>Betty Zane</I>, was so successful that his wife and friends encouraged him to write another on the exploits of his ancestors, and the white avenger Lewis Wetzel. The Indians called Wetzel ``the wind of death." </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Gray places you, the reader, there at Ft. Henry along the Ohio River and the beautiful West Virginia mountains. It is a chance to experience what the early settlers went through - day and night. It gives new appreciation to our forefathers who hewed&nbsp; an empire out of the wilderness. Surrounded daily by Indians, hardships and almost certain death to themselves and their families if caught in the open fields or tracks. And death by the Indians was not pleasant - although it was usually a swift death. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=665 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=80 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=80 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=585><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=585 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=585> <P>This trilogy by Zane Gray in the Ohio Valley gives you a good start in the study of Lewis Wetzel, ``Wind of Death.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=660 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=115 HEIGHT=25><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=115 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=545><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=545 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=545> <P>I give this book a Tomahawk up for historical fact, easy reading and just enough fiction to keep you reading and wantng more.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=654 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=86 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=86 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=568><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=568 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=568> <P>I do disagree with Gray's account of the massacre of the Moravian Indians at Gnadenhutten. But perhaps that fact that he takes a&nbsp; different slant than historians had to do with family information that we were not privy to. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=641 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=401 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=38><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=88 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=26><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=265><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=265 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=22><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=22 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD WIDTH=265> <P>A passage from <I>Spirit of the Border</I>.</P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=4 HEIGHT=26></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=313> <P>``Girty, thy race is run." Wetzel's voice cut the silence like a steel whip. The hunter's right arm rose slowly, the knife dripping with Deering's blood, pointed toward the hilltop.</P> <P>On the dead branches of&nbsp; trees standing far above the hilltops, were many great, dark birds. They sat motionless as if waiting. ``Buzzards! buzzards! hissed Wetzel.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=240 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=55 HEIGHT=19><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=55 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=185><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=185 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=185 BGCOLOR="#FFFF33"> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="+1">The Girty's</FONT></P> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I><FONT COLOR="#000000">Spirit of the Border</FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#000000"> also focuses on the Girty Brothers. Similar to Wetzel in their zeal and readiness to fight they were simply on opposite sides. The Girty's lived and traveled with the Indians and The British while Wetzel abhorred the Indians</FONT> </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=630 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=82 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=82 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=548><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=548 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=548> <P>This book and the rest of the triligy are still in print and can be ordered at most bookstores. ISBN 0-812-53466-2</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=656 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=35><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=6><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=6 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=16></TD> <TD ROWSPAN=3 ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=75><IMG ID="Picture25" HEIGHT=42 WIDTH=75 SRC="../KEY3.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=10></TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP WIDTH=511><IMG ID="SiteStyleLine2" HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=511 SRC="../Line.gif" BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT=16></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=631 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=409 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=12><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=2><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=2 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=70><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=37><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=37 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=13><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=13 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=47><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=47 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=62><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=62 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=33><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=33 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT=66></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=70><IMG ID="Picture14" HEIGHT=66 WIDTH=70 SRC="../Books/j0318069.gif" BORDER=0></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=10 HEIGHT=47></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=9 WIDTH=335> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+3">The Winning of the West<BR></FONT><FONT SIZE="+2">by Theodore Roosevelt</FONT></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=10 HEIGHT=16></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=4></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4 WIDTH=167> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I>Review by Jim Cummings</I></P> </TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=10 HEIGHT=22></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=3></TD> <TD COLSPAN=4 WIDTH=190> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+2">About the Author</FONT></P> </TD> <TD COLSPAN=3></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=10 HEIGHT=9></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD COLSPAN=7 WIDTH=300> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States. Roosevelt was born in 1858 in a house on East 20th St. in New York City. He served as Vice President, and became President adter the assassination of William McKinley (1843-1901) who was president from 1897 - 1901. </P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=222 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=21 HEIGHT=93><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=21 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=302></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=201><IMG ID="Picture7" HEIGHT=302 WIDTH=201 SRC="../Books/teddy.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=654 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=15><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=74 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=580><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=580 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=580> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>On September 6, 1901 at Buffalo's Pan Am Exposition an anarchist by the name of Leon Czologasz gunned down McKinley with a .32 caliber Iver Johnson revolver at point blank range. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>President McKinley took two shots - one in the breast and one in the gut. He died of his wounds 8 days later.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=673 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=503 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=16><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=428><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=428 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=428> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Theodore Roosevelt was quickly sworn in as the 26th president. (By the way, Leon Czolgosz went to trial, was found guilty and sentenced to die by electrocution all with in 45 days. That was swift justice. When Czolgosz went to trial, he was asked why he did it, he simply said, ``I thought it would be a good thing for the country - to kill the president." With his attitude someone should have revoked his passport.) </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Theodore (or Teddy as he was so affectionately called) Roosevelt was at the time in 1901 the youngest president and also the wealthiest.&nbsp; </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=170 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=14 HEIGHT=194><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=14 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=156><IMG ID="Picture8" HEIGHT=194 WIDTH=156 SRC="../Books/teddy4.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=668 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=18><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=73 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=595><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=595 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=595> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>With his infectious smile and robust personality and a ``can do" attitude he was popular among the people of the United States. But not so among the politicians and players of his day. Teddy was his own man and difficult to handle. He did things his own way. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=704 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=76 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=76 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=220></TD> <TD WIDTH=628><IMG ID="Picture9" HEIGHT=220 WIDTH=628 SRC="../Books/teddy3.jpg" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=800 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=76 HEIGHT=15><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=76 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=724><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=724 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=724> <P><FONT SIZE="-1">Historian&nbsp; &nbsp; Police Comm&nbsp; &nbsp; Naval Sec.&nbsp; &nbsp; Rough Rider&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Govenor &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Vice Pres. &nbsp; &nbsp; President&nbsp; &nbsp; Peacemaker&nbsp; &nbsp; Mighty Hunter</FONT> </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=672 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=49><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=3><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=3 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=444><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=444 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=150><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=5><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=5 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=599> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>He was very active and athletic - a dynamic, colorful, adventurous man. But it was not always so. He was a sickly child, with asthma and poor eye sight growing up in New York. He was constantly picked on and goaded by the other children in his plush neighborhood. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Roosevelt was the seventh generation of Manahattan ancestors who came there in 1644. His mothers family owned slaves and also belonged to the Knickerbocker Society.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT=31></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 WIDTH=597> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Roosevelt was once quoted ``at one time in my youth I was so puny looking that I had no shape at all. I looked like a stick." He also said he minded terribly being beaten up and harassed but that it made him a stronger and more intellectually motivated person. The asthma attacks forced him to read. The sickly childhood forced him to build himself up physically.&nbsp; Those two things made the man. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>Roosevelt went to Harvard where he made good grades and developed his love of history. While there he became a lightweight boxer. As a young New York Assemblyman he fought a corrupt legislature. He had a ranch in Dakota. He was a New York City Police Commissioner. He was a colonel in the Spanish American War. He was governor of New York and President of the United States.</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>But his greatest legacy to the people of the United States were his writings. He authored over 30 books and while in the White House he wrote over 150,000 letters.&nbsp; </P> </TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=5 HEIGHT=32></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> <TD WIDTH=444> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+3">The Winning of The West</FONT></P> </TD> <TD COLSPAN=2></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=687 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=28><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=71 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=616><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=616 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=616> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>His greatest writing, in my opinion was ``The Winning of the West'" It was a six volume set covering the early United States. It covered from North to South, from the Eastern seaboard to the ``West" .</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>In Volume IV, in his prolific style he wrote about Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lord Dunmore's War, Indians of the Borders, The backwoodsman, The Eastern Woodland Indians, The Battle of the Great Kanawha, Logan's Speech, The Moravian Massacre, Kentucky up to the end of the Revolutionary War,&nbsp; .Boone and the Settlement of Kentucky in 1775, Kentucky's Struggle for Staehood, 1784-1792, King's Mountain, the northwest Territory and Ohio, and much, much more. His research was unquestionable. The power and wealth of the man gave him sources that not everyone could reach. </P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=494 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=189 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=72 HEIGHT=39><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=72 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=117><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=117 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=117> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+2">The Books</FONT></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=305 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=193 HEIGHT=37><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=193 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=112><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=112 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=112> <P><I>I give this book </I></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=672 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=69 HEIGHT=24><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=69 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=603><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=603 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=603> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>``The Winning of the West" is now out of print. But tracking down a used copy is not that difficult. Check used books stores and research it on the internet. Book IV is a must have - but buy the whole set if you can find it - and afford it.&nbsp; It can only go up in value. </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>If you love history and a re serious about the study of it, it is worth it to find Roosevelt's work.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=272 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=63 HEIGHT=28><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=63 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=209><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=209 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=209> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+2">Related Works</FONT></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=672 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=27><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=607><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=607 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=607> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>There is an introductory book about ``The Winning of the West"&nbsp; that you can order from your local book store. It gives you a good idea about the books and is pretty thorough in it's information .</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>The last reprint of ``Winning of the West" was in 1976 and was edited by Peter Smith. ISBN )-8446-2827-1, published by Peter Smith Publisher, Inc. <BR>&nbsp;</P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>You might also want to check out ``Hero Tales from American History"&nbsp; that&nbsp; Roosevelt co-authored with Henry Cabot Lodge, who was also a n historian and naturalist. And don't forget other stories about Teddy Roosevelt including his biography. They all make for great reading.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=661 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=554 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=61 HEIGHT=12><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=61 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD HEIGHT=10></TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP WIDTH=493><IMG ID="SiteStyleLine1" HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=493 SRC="../Line.gif" BORDER=0></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=550 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=208 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=33><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=144><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=144> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+3">Betty Zane<BR></FONT>by Zane Gray</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=342 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=131 HEIGHT=63><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=131 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=211><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=211 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=211> <P ALIGN=CENTER><I>Review by Jim Cummings</I></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=419 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=62 HEIGHT=32><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=62 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> <TD WIDTH=357><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=357 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD></TD> <TD WIDTH=357> <P><FONT COLOR="#FFFF33" SIZE="+2">Historical Information</FONT></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=107 NOF=LY> <TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT> <TD WIDTH=13 HEIGHT=1><IMG SRC="../clearpixel.gif" WIDTH=13 HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0></TD>