Our Lusty Forefathers: Being Diverse Chronicles of the Fervors, Frolics, Fights, Festivities, and Failings of Our American Ancestors

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Wonsetler, John C. First edition. No jacket. Spine faded, bottom board corners bumped. 1947 Hard Cover. xiv, 359 pp. Illustrated by John C. Wonsetler. CONTENTS: Foreword; Swipsy or Sober' The Supervisor of Drinking Does His Duty; The Governor Goes A-wooing: The Swashbuckling Courtship of Nicholson of Virginia; Bear and Forebear: Wives, Widows, Maid and Thornbacks; The Old Black Bull and the Meetinghouse: A Girl-Child is Christened with a Name, Mete and Proper; Parching through Georgia: Governor Oglethorpe's Preview of Prohibition; Tight College Years: Pleasures are Discovered to be Rife at Yale; Just Between Friends: A Quaker Wedding in Philadelphia; Tavern in the Town: Black Sam Fraunces and His New York Inn; Their Ears Were Red: Corn-husking Bees and Other Frolics; Scarlet Letters: Crime and Punishment by Aid of the Alphabet; When Co-eds Were Red: Goings-on at the Indian Charity School of Eleazar Wheelock; Singing School was Sociable: "Young Virgins All with Beauteous Voice, Make Music Harmony Your Choice"; Germans Over the River: An Artillery Sergeant Reports an Amphibious Operation; They Call It Bundling: Lieutenant Marbry, of His Majesty's Foot, Notes a Quaint American Custom; Advice to a Young Man: Old Ben Franklin Imparts Some Worldly Wisdom; Beefsteak for Breakfast: The Amazing American Appetite and How It Grew So Great; Immortal American Horse: Justin Morgan, Foaled 1789, and His Curious Colts; Last But Not-So-Sad Rites: A Funeral Dinner in Boston; Fervor on the Frontier: Reverend Lyle Keeps a Revival Diary; Where Beavers Beckoned: Tales of Two Trappers and of Uncle Sam's Hat; Log Cabin and Hard Cider: Electioneering Takes a Trip from Tippecanoe; Clash of Broadswords: An Affair of Honor in New Orleans; First Wild West Showman: Catlin's Indian Portraits Come Alive in England; "California or Bust": The Epic of the Donner Party; Bread and Mr. Graham: How a Reformer Defied the Butcher, the Baker, and the Ladies' Staymaker; First Blood for Yankee Sullivan: Saga of a Champion of the Prize-ring; Stagecoach Stickups: There was Gold in the Express Boxes; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.