King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain October 7th, 1780, and the Events which Led to It.
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1881. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Item #18648
A very nice copy of this seminal history of one of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Kings Mountain, where American 'Overmountain Men' surrounded and annihilated a British force of elite troops under Col Patrick Ferguson in the backcountry of South Carolina, setting in motion events which would lead to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in October, 1781.
612pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Publisher gilt-pictorial cloth lightly rubbed and worn, faint scattered foxing. Both hinges starting but solid.
An unusually nice 1st Edition copy of what is still the standard history of Kings Mountain.
Price: $650.00