1859
The | Life and Times | of
| Patrick Gass, | now sole survivor | of
the overland
expedition to the Pacific, | under Lewis and Clark, in
1804–5–6; | also, | a soldier in the war with
Great Britain, from | 1812
to 1815, and a participant in the
| Battle of Lundy's Lane. | Together
with | Gass'
Journal of the Expedition condensed; |—and—|
sketches
of some events occurring during the | last century in the
upper Ohio
country, | biographies, reminiscences, etc. | By
J. G. Jacob. |
Jacob & Smith, | Publishers and
Printers, Wellsburg, Va. | 1859. |
12mo; title, with
copyright on verso; "Preface", pp. [iii]–v; "Contents",
pp. [vi]–viii; "Life and Times
of Patrick Gass", pp. [9]–193;
portrait of Washington on p. 194;
"Civil History", pp. [195]–280. No
signatures. Frontispiece portrait
of Gass, with autograph; "Mandan Indians",
to p. 59; "Big White-Ball
Costume", to p. 108; tailpiece on p. 202;
"Going to Church in Old Times",
to p. 248.
Dr. Elliott Coues learned from the author of this volume that
the substance
of it appeared in the columns of the Wellsburg (Va.) Herald before it was made
up in book form.
Copies: BA; BPL; CHC; HSP; NYHS; NYSL; WHS.
