Title page from "The Great West" by Henry Howe. NY: Geo. F. Tuttle, 1858. With hand-colored plates
Henry Howe (1816-1893) was an American author who wrote histories of several states in the United States. His most celebrated work is the 3-volume “Historical Collections of Ohio.” Howe was married September, 1848, and moved to Cincinnati, where he wrote “The Great West,” “Achievement of Americans,” “Life and Death on the Ocean,” and “Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travelers.”
In 1856, he began his epic work, a series called “Our Whole Country.” It was not issued until the month Fort Sumter fell, marking the beginning of the American Civil War, and people were living history, not reading it. The book was a financial disaster. His “Times of the Rebellion in the West,” published shortly after the war, was very profitable. In the 1870s he reprinted his older works, and was often asked by influential Ohioans to update his “Collections.” [Source: Wikipedia]
Title page from "The Great West" by Henry Howe. NY: Geo. F. Tuttle, 1858. With hand-colored plates
Henry Howe (1816-1893) was an American author who wrote histories of several states in the United States. His most celebrated work is the 3-volume “Historical Collections of Ohio.” Howe was married September, 1848, and moved to Cincinnati, where he wrote “The Great West,” “Achievement of Americans,” “Life and Death on the Ocean,” and “Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travelers.”
In 1856, he began his epic work, a series called “Our Whole Country.” It was not issued until the month Fort Sumter fell, marking the beginning of the American Civil War, and people were living history, not reading it. The book was a financial disaster. His “Times of the Rebellion in the West,” published shortly after the war, was very profitable. In the 1870s he reprinted his older works, and was often asked by influential Ohioans to update his “Collections.” [Source: Wikipedia]