Title: Sketches of western adventure
Subtitle: containing an account of the most interesting incidents connected with the settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794: together with an appendix
First published: 1832
Description: “It is the most complete collection of captivities and early adventures ever published in one volume. Daniel Boone had been a resident of Maysville only a few years before Mr. McClung settled there. Simon Kenton, William Kennan, James Ward, Charles Ward, Major Hugh McGary, Thomas Marshall, and other heroes of the “Adventures,” were acquaintances or personal friends of the author, some of them as early as 1806; and he had every facility to verify, and was himself thoroughly assured of the accuracy of the sketches.”
- Peter G. Thomson, A Bibliography of the State of Ohio (1880)
Subjects: History, Indian captivities, Indians of North America
Places: Ohio River Valley, Old Northwest, Kentucky
Time periods: To 1795
LC classification: F516 .M12