Download or read book The Voice of the Old Frontier written by R. W. G. Vail and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.