History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley - Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trails and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians ... #227874

I am also indebted to a number of persons for information that has been of value to me, whose names will be mentioned in another place in the work. If this volume fails to meet the expectations of those kind friends who have interested themselves in my behalf, it will not be for lack of zeal or perseverance on my part. I am free to confess that the language of the book is not clothed in that attractive garb which makes books popular in the age we live in; but then it must be remembered that I am not, worthy reader, submitting to your judgment a romance.