Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier

This book is a collection of essays written by Frank H. Severance, which depict various periods in the history of the Niagara region, covering the area from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The essays focus on events and conditions in relation to the general history of the United States. For example, the first title, 'The Cross Bearers', reviews all the French missions in the vicinity, and the work of the English-speaking missionary priests who said mass in the Niagara region prior to its full organization under ecclesiastical jurisdiction. And the second title, 'The Paschal of the Great Pinch," which depicts conditions at Fort Niagara between 1687 to 1688, when the Marquis de Denonville made his abortive attempt to occupy that point, and is based on the memoirs of the Chevalier De Tregay.