This book, originally published in 1848 was last printed in 1959. I have a 1959 copy. Forest Rose is a historical novel based on the true events that occurred around/near Standing Stone (now known as Mt. Pleasant) in the 1790's Ohio Indian Wars. This book typified the struggle of the settlers and the Indians. Unless one is really interested in local history (Lancaster, Ohio) I would not recommend this book. While good, it was a struggle to read firstly because of the font size and secondly because at least 50% of the book was written in a vernacular that was very troublesome and took great effort to read. ( )