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Title: Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819

Author: Richard Lee Mason

Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27002]

Language: English

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NARRATIVE OF RICHARD LEE MASON IN
THE PIONEER WEST, 1819

Heartman's Historical Series No. 6

[Illustration: DR. RICHARD LEE MASON]

NARRATIVE
OF
RICHARD LEE MASON
IN THE PIONEER WEST
1819

One hundred and sixty copies printed for
CHAS. FRED. HEARTMAN, New York City

TO
G. J. BARBER, Esq.
this book is dedicated
by
Chas. Fred. Heartman

Number____________of 150 copies printed
on Fabriano hand-made paper.

Also ten copies printed on Japan Vellum.

In the late fall and early winter of the year 1819 Dr. Richard Lee Mason
made a journey from Philadelphia to Illinois, through Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Some of his adventures were remarkable, and
these, together with his observations on the country, the towns and the
people whom he encountered, were recorded in a diary kept by him, which
is now in the possession of his only surviving child, a daughter, who
resides in Jacksonville, Ill. Dr. Mason was a remarkably intelligent
observer, and his record of the people whom he encountered in Illinois
more than three-quarters of a century ago, not to mention his notes of
travel in other states, is unique and valuable.

Richard Lee Mason, whose diary is being published in THE RECORD, was
born in Port Tobacco,