MAINE IN THE MAKING OF A NATION, 1783-1870
By: Elizabeth Ring
This book presents local and state history in the framework of national history with peticular reference to the part Maine natives had in the building of the west and south. It was inspired by an extraordinary collection of family letters found in the McArthur attic in Limington, Maine in the summer of 1942, now in the Bowdoin College Library.
Hardcover, 1996, 485 pages.