Modern chivalry: containing the adventures of Captain John Farrago, and Teague Oregan, his servant. Volume I[-IV]. By H.H. Brackenridge. [One line in ... according to act of Congress. Volume 1 of 4

by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)W026247Vol. II dated M.DCC.XII [i.e., 1792]. Vol. III has varied imprint: Pittsburgh: Printed and sold by John Scull. M.DCC.XIII [i.e., 1793]. BAL notes four states of v. 1; sequence not determined. In the first "Entered according to act of Congress" appears at foot of title page and p. 69 is misnumbered 99. In the second, the same copyright notice appears on the title page and p. 69 is correctly paged. In the third and fourth states, the copyright notice does not appear; in the former, p. 69 is misnumbered 99 and in the latter p. 69 is correctly paged. Vol. 1: 156 p.; v. 2: 156 p.; v. 3: lxvii, 99, [2] p.; v. 4: 160 p. Error in paging: v. 2, p. 18 misnumbered 28.Philadelphia: Printed and sold by John M'Culloch, no. 1, North Third-Street, M.DCC.XCII [-M.DCC.XCVII] [1792-1797]. 4v.; 12

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First published June 10, 2010

About the author

Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Brackenridge was born in Kintyre, Scotland, a village near Campbeltown. In 1753, when he was 5, his family emigrated to York County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, then a frontier.[1][2] At age 15 he was head of a free school in Maryland. At age 19 he entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he joined Philip Morin Freneau, James Madison, and others in forming the American Whig Society to counter the conservative Cliosophic, or Tory, Society. (Today these are conjoined as the American Whig–Cliosophic Society.) Freneau and Brackenridge collaborated on a satire on American manners that may be the first work of prose fiction written in America, Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca .[3] They also wrote The Rising Glory of America, a prophetic poem of a united nation that would rule the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Brackenridge recited it at the commencement exercises of 1771.

He corresponded with other politically active men such as Alexander Addison, a major figure in the Whiskey Rebellion.[5][6][7] In 1815 he completed Modern Chivalry, his rambling satirical novel. Widely considered the first important fictional work about the American frontier and called "to the West what Don Quixote was to Europe," the third and fourth sections of the book appeared in 1793 and 1797, and a revision in 1805, with a final addition in 1815. Henry Adams called it "a more thoroughly American book than any written before 1833."

Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

The Allegheny County borough of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, is named for his son, the lawyer, judge, and writer Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786–1871).