Simon Girty: The White Savage

by Thomas Boyd

 Publication Information: Minton, Balch & Company, New York (1928)

Book Description: This is a first-edition hardcover copy with a dust jacket. The dust jacket has wear and tear due to age but has mylar on for protection. The front and back cover has some discoloration. Pages 45-48 are not bound but the rest of the pages remain intact with the original binding. Pages are unmarked but discolored due to age.

About the book: Perhaps few other frontiersmen of the early Revolutionary period were as complicated as the notorious Simon Girty. A native of Pennsylvania, Girty spent years of his childhood as a captive of the Seneca, eventually assimilating into its culture. During Lord Dunmore's War, Girty fought alongside Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone as a spy and scout for the British forces. Although initially supporting the Americans in the Revolution, Girty switched sides in 1778 and fought the remainder of the war against the colonials. After the war, Girty continued to fight against American encroachment on native territories. He settled in Canada and died there in 1818. His unusual life reflected the decades during which the "middle ground" was built and contested by native Americans and the British and French colonial empires.

All orders are shipped off the shelves from a "brick-and-mortar" bookstore in New Orleans. We've been with eBay since 2001 as both a buyer and a seller, so buy with confidence!