Wilderness Plots: Tales about the Settlement of the American Land

by Scott Russell Sanders

Book Overview

Wilderness Plots is made up of fifty brief tales that chronicle the period of settlement of the Ohio Valley. Written with the power and compression of folklore, these tales bring to life the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688048331
• ISBN13: 9780688048334
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Quill
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent comprehensive work!

I bought copies of this to hand out as gifts, being from the Ohio Valley area. It's a great window into the details of our past! Highly recommend!

A Little Gem

Fifty tiny tales, each exquisitely told, chronicle the settling of the Ohio River Valley. Scott Russell Sanders is a fabulous storyteller who collects the curiosities that would have travelled far by word of mouth in an earlier time. Sanders calls these "tales, stories provoked by germs of fact, rather than history." The characters are mostly forgotten--Indians, surveyors and drunks, flustered judges, animals fierce and tame, gravepickers, newborns, clergy and lovers. Taken together, the stories function like a fine illustration in a history book, artfully fleshing out the facts so that our understanding is deepened. This is a perfect book for a history lover, a bedtime reader or a lover of the quirky. I was glad to find it still in print.