LEATHER STOCKING AND SILK; OR, HUNTER JOHN MYERS AND HIS TIMES. A STORY OF THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1854.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
TO THE READER.
IN this little tale the writer has attempted to sketch in outline, some of the personages, and modes of life and thought in Virginia, at the commencement of the present century. The chief character, who gives his name to the book, and around whom the other actors group themselves, had like many of the rest a real existence, and is drawn with as near an approach to life in personal and characteristic traits, as the writer found it possible. One who knew him well, testifies to the accuracy of the delineation in all its material points.
It is only necessary to add, that the story is sunny rather than gloomy—comedy rather than tragedy;—dealing rather with peculiarities and humors, than with those profound passions of the soul which excite so terrible an interest in the reader. If the book be found entertaining, and (above all else) the spirit of it pure, the writer will be more than satisfied.
