Border Settlers of Northeastern Virginia from 1768 to 1795

This vast work comprehends the first explorations settlements and Indian wars as well as notes anecdotes and biographies of the Border scouts and pioneers with copious memoranda and remarks concerning the military careers--mostly Revolutionary--of numerous Border settlers. Sown throughout the work are biographical sketches genealogies and thumbnail portraits of the early pioneers and settlers. With judicious impartiality the narrative surveys the depredations of Indian and pioneer alike correcting a good many errors and misconceptions put by previous writers. Incident builds upon incident anecdote upon anecdote hair-raising account upon hair-raising account until the whole incredible narrative of Trans-Allegheny frontier life becomes as evocative as if it had been lived at little remove.