Author: R. W. G. Vail

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1512819093

This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.