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The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life

Chapter 2: PREFACE.
By N. E. Jones
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A collection of recollections and sketches presenting life in early Ohio as settlers transformed wilderness into communities. The author gathers pioneer reminiscences, practical anecdotes, and natural observations to portray settlement patterns, social and educational institutions, and civic development; profiles of local professions; descriptions of native wildlife and trees as resources and companions; and changing transportation and communication—from stagecoaches and canals to railroads and telegraph—that shaped daily life. Interwoven are domestic scenes, hunting and farming practices, community rituals, and material culture that illuminate how immigrants adapted, survived, and built local identity on the frontier.

Copyright, 1897, by
N. E. JONES.

PREFACE.

It required long trains of complex circumstances, and peculiar conditions for each, to give to the world a Moses, an Alexander, a Napoleon, a Washington. Still greater were the pre-arrangements and preparations for the development of the coming man of the Nineteenth Century, that he might stand pre-eminently upon the summit of American manhood. The habitation selected was the most elaborate and lovely of all the gifts of nature: A domain dedicated to freedom forever, bountifully supplied with animals, vegetables, and minerals; with lakes, rivers, and running brooks, grassy lawns and fields of flowers; making a fitting place for the best blood left of the American Revolution; descendants of Anglo-Saxon kings; knights of Norman titles and heroic deeds; supporters of William the Conqueror, whose ancestral names appear in the Doomsday Book, but more imperishably written in the law of descent and transmission. With such the new environment brought forth an improved species, christened by a sovereign state, “The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life,” and to whom this volume is most respectfully dedicated.

N. E. Jones, M. D.