Category: History - American
PAGE PREFACE 9 I. THE OLD TRADING PATH 15 II. A BLOOD-RED FRONTIER 35 III. THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1758 65 IV. THE OLD OR A NEW ROAD? 81 V. THE NEW ROAD 124 VI. THE MILITARY ROAD TO THE WEST 163 VII. THE PENNSYLVANIA ROAD 190
So many are the versions of the story of the building of Forbes's Road through Pennsylvania that it was with utmost interest that the present writer took up the task of examinin...
6. CHAPTER VThe correspondence included in the chapter preceding affords probably the utmost light that can be thrown today upon the reason of the making of the great Pennsylvanian thorough...
3. CHAPTER IIThere is no truer picture of the dark days of 1755-56 along the frontiers of Pennsylvania and Virginia than that presented in the correspondence of Washington at this time. A gr...
7. CHAPTER VIThere is another hero of Forbes's Road. The rough days of that summer of 1758 were only suggestions of what was to come. Other armies than that of Forbes were to pass this way,...
8. CHAPTER VIISuch had become the importance of the Pennsylvania Road that, soon after the Revolutionary struggle, Pennsylvania took active steps to improve it. On the twenty-first day of Sep...
4. CHAPTER III"Between the French and the earthquakes," wrote Horace Walpole in 1758 to Mr. Conway, "you have no notion how good we have grown; nobody makes a suit of clothes now but of sackc...
2. CHAPTER IWhen, in the middle of the eighteenth century, intelligent white men were beginning to cross the Allegheny Mountains and enter the Ohio basin, one of the most practicable routes...
1. VOLUME 5PAGE PREFACE 9 I. THE OLD TRADING PATH 15 II. A BLOOD-RED FRONTIER 35 III. THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1758 65 IV. THE OLD OR A NEW ROAD? 81 V. THE NEW ROAD 124 VI. THE MILITARY ROAD TO TH...