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The Cumberland Rifles Gerson, Noel B. Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company 1952 First Edition Hard Cover Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Beige boards with blue lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Pages are clean though yellowing with age. Boards soiled. Shelfwear with corners bumped and starting to fray. Ex-library with all the usual markings. "While Tennesseans are familiar with the unique history of their state in its earliest days, during the years following the Revolutionary War and prior to the adoption of the Constitution, the majority of us have never known the curious background and development of what was one the self-styled fourteenth state of the Union, a state unrecognized by her sister, the 'lost state' known as Franklin. I have found it next to impossible to include in a single volume of fiction more than the sketchiest outline of the complications that plagued the existence of Franklin. I have tried, however, to give some idea of living conditions there, of the character and temper and casual, incredible courage of the young men and women who blazed trails and created a civilization where only a few short years before there had been nothing but an opulent wilderness." This book is just one of many from the entire collection we acquired from the estate of a respected genealogist/author. His reference library contained numerous historical works, both fiction and nonfiction with his notations and underlining. 0104N0000H8 Historical Fiction Price: 9.95 USD
