alt: An elderly white man stands in front of a distant row of houses. He wears a hat, a long coat over a waistcoat, and knee-length breeches over long stockings. He has one hand in a pocket of his coat and leans on a cane held in the other. He is smiling.
alt: Chapter 1 of Tales of Peter Parley About America; paragraphs are numbered: "Parley tells about Himself, about Boston, and about the Indians. 1. Here I am! My name is Peter Parley! I am an old man. I am very gray and lame. But I have seen a great many things, and had a great many adventures, and love to talk about them. 2. I love to tell stories to children, and very often they come to my house, and they get around me, and I tell them stories of what I have seen, and of what I have heard."
Happy birthday #PeterParley, early brand name making his debut #otd in 1827, in Tales of Peter Parley About America, by #SamuelGriswoldGoodrich; it was the first of almost a dozen books with Parley's name in the title. #bookhistory
