As an actor and interested witness of the marvelous changes which have occurred in the settlement and civilization of the Northwest territory, the author places before the reader this book, entitled, 'The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life.' Others have faithfully recorded the wars, bloodshed, victories, defeats, dangers and deaths it cost to subjugate the savage and establish the civilized. And it is as the gleaner follows the reapers and gathers in the wayward straws, that the author hopes to interest and entertain, by picking up some of the fragments, that nothing may be lost which contributed to the elevation, pleasure, subsistence and safety of the pioneer, or added attractiveness to his home during the rise of the first state in the great empire of the Northwest.
