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(NEW HAMPSHIRE). (WHITE MOUNTAINS). WILLEY, BENJAMIN G. Incidents in White Mountain History: Containing Facts Relating to the Discovery and Settlement of the Mountains, Indian History and Traditions, a Minute and Authentic Account of the Destruction of the Willey Family, Geology and Tmperature of the Mountains; Together with Many Interesting Anecdotes Illustrating Life in the Back-Woods. Boston: Nathaniel Noyes; Dover, N.H: Edmund J. Lane , 1856. 1st ed. 8vo. 307 pp. Illustrated by Champney. Large folding map inserted at back (fragile). Orig. cloth, ends of spine chipped. $450.00
Bent, p. 2 (one of a handful of White Mountain classics). The destruction of the Willey family refers to the author's brother, Samuel Willey, Jr., whose family was killed in the great slide of 1826. Not in Hamilton. Not in Sabin.