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The Old Northwest Chapter Chapter Title Page I. Pontiac's Conspiracy 1 II. "A Lair of Wild Beasts" 20 III. The Revolution Begins 41 IV. The Conquest Completed 57 V. Wayne, The Scourge Of The Indians 76 VI. The Great Migration 97 VII. Pioneer Days and Ways 110 VIII. Tecumseh 13...
While the Ohio country--the lower half of the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois--was throwing off its frontier character, the remoter Northwest was still a wilderness freque...
10. Chapter 10The spring of 1812 thus found the back country in a turmoil, and it was with a real sense of relief that the settlers became aware of the American declaration of war against Gre...
8. Chapter 8Arrived on the lower Ohio, or one of its tributaries, the pioneer looked out upon a land of remarkable riches. It was not a Mexico or a Peru, with emblazoned palaces and glitter...
6. Chapter 6"This federal republic," wrote the Spanish Count d'Aranda to his royal master in 1782, "is born a pigmy. A day will come when it will be a giant, even a colossus. Liberty of con...
3. Chapter 3Benjamin Franklin, who was in London in 1760 as agent of the Pennsylvania Assembly, gave the British ministers some wholesome advice on the terms of the peace that should be mad...
9. Chapter 9Wayne's victory in 1795, followed by the Treaty of Fort Greenville, gave the Northwest welcome relief from Indian warfare, and within four years the Territory was ready to be ad...
2. Chapter 2The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and colonial troops, was indeed an e...
5. Chapter 5Lieutenant-Governor Hamilton had many faults, but sloth was not one of them; and when he heard what had happened he promptly decided to regain the posts and take the upstart Ken...
11. Chapter 11The War of 1812 did much in America to stimulate national pride and to foster a sense of unity. None the less, the decade following the Peace of Ghent proved the beginning of a...
4. Chapter 4One of the grievances given prominence in the Declaration of Independence was that the English Crown had "abolished the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, e...
7. Chapter 7While the fate of the Northwest still hung in the balance, emigration from the eastern States became the rage. "Every small farmer whose barren acres were covered with mortgages...
1. Chapter 1The Old Northwest Chapter Chapter Title Page I. Pontiac's Conspiracy 1 II. "A Lair of Wild Beasts" 20 III. The Revolution Begins 41 IV. The Conquest Completed 57 V. Wayne, The S...
15. Chapter 15Pack-horse (Page 106) and pack-horses (Page 116) were spelled with a hyphen in Chapter 5, but packhorse (Page 157) and pack-horses (Page 159) of Chapter 7 omitted the hyphen. We...
14. Chapter 14On Page 53, and also Page 205, war-whoop was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. The word was not used elsewhere in this book, but in other chronicles it is spelled with a...
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