The author chose to let the history of Wyoming Valley unfold through a series of letters to his son because, besides being indebted to him for aid and many valuable suggestions, it must be obvious that a variety of minute details necessary to be preserved to present a perfect picture of life, manners and events, among a plain people, in a new and rude settlement, requires an easier style and freer scope of pencil, than might be deemed fitting to the grave Delineator of the fate of Nations, or to the Historian who records the revolutions, the rise and the fall of Empires. A chapter containing...
The author chose to let the history of Wyoming Valley unfold through a series of letters to his son because, besides being indebted to him for aid and...