Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York; Embracing Some Account of the Ancient Remains; A Brief History of Our Immediate Predecessors, the Confederated Iroquois, Their System of Government, Wars, etc. -- A Synopsis of Colonial History: Some Notices of the Border Wars of the Revolution: and a History of Pioneer Settlement under the Auspices of the Holland Company; Including Reminiscences of the War of 1812; the Origin, Progress and Completion of the Erie Canal, etc. etc. etc.

Title: Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York; Embracing Some Account of the Ancient Remains; A Brief History of Our Immediate Predecessors, the Confederated Iroquois, Their System of Government, Wars, etc. -- A Synopsis of Colonial History: Some Notices of the Border Wars of the Revolution: and a History of Pioneer Settlement under the Auspices of the Holland Company; Including Reminiscences of the War of 1812; the Origin, Progress and Completion of the Erie Canal, etc. etc. etc.
Author: Turner, Orsamus
Publication Information: Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1849. 2d ed. 1850. 670 pp. Repr. 1974 by James Brunner, Geneseo, N.Y., with Name Index by Laverne C. Cooley, first pub. at Batavia in 1946.
Subject: General Works; State & Regional History
Note: (The title describes the contents well; the book is most useful to the modern researcher for its great store of biographical and anecdotal material. Of special interest are the four engravings depicting the transformation of a pioneer homestead, reprinted under the title of “The Pioneer Settler upon the Holland Purchase, and His Progress,” introd. by S. George Ellsworth. Western Historical Quarterly, 6 (1975), 425-35. On Turner's life and career see Morley B. Turpin and W. De Witt Manning, “Orsamus Turner.” RHPFS, 17 (1939), 273-90. Also Harry S. Douglass, “Orsamus Turner, Pioneer Historian.” Historical Wyoming, 12, no. 2 (Jan. 1959), 33-46.)
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