Rare D’RI AND I by Irving Bacheller (1901 Hardcover) Special Limited Edition

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Rare D’RI AND I by Irving Bacheller (1901 Hardcover) Special Limited Edition:
$26.00

A Tale of Daring Deeds
in the Second War with the British
Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bess, U.S.A.

1901, Special Limited Edition, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 361 pages.

From the Preface, “This is a tale of the adventurous and rugged pioneers, who, unconquered by other foes, were ever at war with the ancient wilderness, pushing the northern frontier of the white man farther and farther to the west... The most important episodes herein are of history, - so romantic was the life of that time and region. The marriage is almost literally a matter of record... The purpose of this tale is to extend acquaintance with the plain people who sweat and bled and limped and died for this Republic of ours. Darius, or “D’ri” as the woods folk called him, was a pure-bred Yankee, quaint, rugged, wise, truthful; Ramon had the hardy traits of a Puritan father, softened by the more romantic temperament of a French mother. They had no more love of fighting than they had need of it.”