Category: History - American
_The Part played in American History by the Pioneer's Axe.--Several Classes of Leaders in the Conquest of the Wilderness.--Patriotism even in those that were Self-seeking.--The Achievements of Cleaveland, Henderson, Putnam, Morris, and Astor, respectively.--Feebleness of the R...
_Washington's Prescience of the Increased Value of Land in the West.--Diary of his Tour in the Basin of the Ohio.--His Plans for the Commercial Development of the West.--His Cha...
14. CHAPTER XII_Seeds of Christianity sown among the Indians by the Lewis and Clark Band.--A Deputation of Nez Percés to General Clark, requesting that the Bible be taught in their Nation.--Th...
8. CHAPTER VI_Clark's Birth and Parentage.--Wholesomeness of the Family's Home Life.--Achievements of George and his Five Brothers.--George's Lack of Book-learning.--How he became a Surveyor...
16. did. Again, the division could not, for the same reason, be made onthe basis of receipts; the States of the seaboard, in which the great part of the Government's revenue was raised, would then be almost the only beneficiaries; the West would re...
9. CHAPTER VII_Importance of the Cumberland Road.--Expected to be a Bond of Union between East and West.--Roads of Former Days only Indian Trails.--The Cumberland Road made between 1806 and 1...
10. CHAPTER VIII_Gouverneur Morris's Day-dream of the Coming Blessings of Liberty.--He predicts Artificial Channels from the Lakes to the Hudson.--The Sight of the Caledonian Canal enables him...
6. CHAPTER IV_A Movement among the Colonies to seize the Unoccupied Land Northwest of the Ohio.--Putnam's Hardy Training in Boyhood.--His Training in the Old French War.--His Achievements in...
11. CHAPTER IX_The Demand for Canals and Navigable Rivers.--Washington's Search for a Route for a Canal or Road to bind the East and West.--Much Money spent in the Attempt to make Certain Riv...
12. CHAPTER X_Ignorance of the American People regarding the Territory called New France and that called Louisiana.--Civilization's Cruel March into Louisiana.--Lewis and Clark, Leaders of t...
5. CHAPTER III_After Examination Henderson is licensed to practise Law.--Defeat of the Shawnees by the Virginians who claimed the Land south of the Ohio.--The Attention of Settlers directed t...
13. CHAPTER XI_Fur Trade the Leading Business in the Northwest.--Rise of the Astor Family.--The U. S. Government fails as a Rival of the Northwest Company of Montreal, in the Fur Trade.--John...
7. CHAPTER V_The Grave of David Zeisberger, Moravian Missionary to the Indians.--The Great Length of his Service.--His Flight from Moravia to Saxony.--Arrival at Bethlehem, Pa.--He studies...
3. CHAPTER I_The Part played in American History by the Pioneer's Axe.--Several Classes of Leaders in the Conquest of the Wilderness.--Patriotism even in those that were Self-seeking.--The...
15. CHAPTER XIII_Captains of American Expansion always to be found in the National Legislature.--Great National Advance in the Second and Third Decades of the Nineteenth Century.--Definition of...
2. CHAPTER XIII1. CHAPTER IX