Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome, fifteen years interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake, Chiefs of the Allegany River
Chapters: Parentage and early life / Hunting the elk / Capturing a live elk / Face of the country / Danger from rattlesnakes / Wolf and deer hunting / Another elk hunt / Elk hunting on the Susquehannah / Nature habits, and manner of hunting the elk / Elk and bear hunting in winter / Hunting on the Clarion River / Hunting and trapping / The bear-its nature and habits / Hunting deer at different seasons / Nature and habits of the panther, wolf and fox / Rattlesnakes and their habits / Distinguished lumbermrn, &C. / Reminiscences of cornplanter / Indian eloquence
Summary
"I was born March 22d, 1782, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, near where the city of Harrisburg now stands. My parents were both of German extraction. They moved up the Susquehannah River about ninety miles in 1786, traveling in a keel boat, there being no roads or other mode of conveyance. They landed at a place called Farris Creek in what was then Northumberland county, and remained there about four months, when the Six Nations of Indians began to trouble the inhabitants on the west branch of the Susquehannah."
A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634 to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line: the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present time ... For the use of schools
