The Violent Years: Simon Kenton And The Ohio-Kentucky Frontier by Jahns, Patricia

1962, 1st edition, near fine condition, with a near fine dust jacket, graphic dust jacket art by Sidnee Neale, published by Hasting House, New York, 309 pages. The Trans-Allegheny frontier of the late 1700's and early 1800's, resulting in a dark and bloody Indian war in the opening of the Frontier of Ohio and Kentucky to white settlement. A major figure in this period was Simon Kenton, and his Kenton Boys, a volunteer body of frontier fighters who fought off the raiding Indians, along with the likes of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Lew Wetzel, William Henry Harrison, etc., and of course the controversial Simon Girty! With a bibliography for further study, the endpapers have an area map of the Frontier World of Simon Kenton. As an aside it was Simon Kenton who served as James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking" hero. A fascinating read! .