Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the West, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : James Hall |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780365151821 |
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Excerpt from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the West, Vol. 1 To acquire an adequate knowledge of such a coun try, requires extensive personal observation. It is necessary to examine things instead of books, to travel over this wide region, to become acquainted with the people, to learn their history from tradition, and to become informed as to their manners and modes of thinking, by associating with them in the familiar in tercourse of business and domestic life. There is no other mode of collecting facts in relation to a coun try whose history has never been written, and with regard to which no accurate printed statistics, em bracing the whole region, are in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.