A winding road goes up from Overton, Ohio, toward Peewee Hollow Scout Camp. The road follows Cedar Run stream and traces over a stagecoach route that has been in existence since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The rad is untypically steep and winding and it is easy to imaging how rough and jostling a ride in a stagecoach that would be. Plus there were wolves. This short book covers the landscape and culture of Wayne County, Ohio, in the years prior to when David Sloane Stanley took that route to pursue a military career in 1848. The first chapter of Major General Stanley's official memoir (Harvard University Press, 1917) presents a brief account of life in the early days of Wayne County. But the editors include a tantalizing footnote saying that they had chosen not to present most of the material Stanley had written. This book restores that material. It is a story of early Wayne County clearly recalled and luminous with details.--COVER.
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