Chapter 14 of "The Trees" ("The Trees", by Conrad Richter, Alfred A Knopf, NY, 1940) is the story of the hunt for a small child lost in the Ohio forest prior to1800. Richter's Acknowledgments reads: The author acknowledges his debt to HENRY HOWE's rich and monumental work on early Ohio; to SHERMAN DAY's Historical Collec- tions of Pennsylvania; to JOSEPH DODD- RIDGE's classic of pioneer life in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia; to scores of early, out-of-print volumes and local histories made available by Miss ALICE H. LERCH, assistant curator of the Rare Book Collection at the Library of Congress, and by Miss NELL B. STEVENS, assistant general libra- rian of the Pennsylvania State Library; to Col. HENRY W. SHOEMAKER, Pennsylvania State Archivist, and to WILLIAM D. OVERMAN, Ohio State Curator of History and Archivist; to the Curators of the Campus Martius Museum at Mari- etta and the Ross County Historical Society at Chillicothe; to the help, counsel or first source ma- terial of W. T. BOYD, B. F. CLARK, JOHN MINSKER, Sr., HERBERT and LOU HARDY, AGNES MORLEY CLEAVELAND, HOWARD ROOSA, JOHN A. RICHTER, H. W. IRWIN, MARY H. GREEN, GEORGE WHEELER, A. MONROE AURAND and many others; And finally to Mrs. GEORGE P. RIGGS, a na- tive of the Ohio Valley, and to those neighbors of pioneer stock the author knew intimately as boy and man in the mountains of Northern and Central Pennsylvania, whose great uncles, several times re- moved, carried the early pioneer language along with the early Pennsylvania rifle down into Ken- tucky and other Southern states, where the former long lingered, and later into Ohio where it soon all but vanished; whose mode of speech and thought so nearly approximated the store of early living speech compiled by the author from books, letters and personal records of colonial days that he felt he could do no better than to tell this story in their own words. In "History of Brown County", (Ohio), Part IV, Chapter IV, page 483, History of Perry Twp by T. M. Reade, MD, is the story of a lost child and the search for her. It is almost exactly the story Richter tells. He makes no bones about using these sources. It's interesting to stumble across one. .