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APPENDIX A--To CHAPTER I. APPENDIX B--To CHAPTER II. APPENDIX C--To CHAPTER III. APPENDIX D--To CHAPTER IV. APPENDIX E--To CHAPTER VII. APPENDIX F--To CHAPTER VII. APPENDIX G--To CHAPTER X. APPENDIX H--To CHAPTER XII. APPENDIX I--To CHAPTER XIII. APPENDIX J--To CHAPTER XIII.
When the first Continental Congress began its sittings the only frontiersmen west of the mountains, and beyond the limits of continuous settlement within the old Thirteen Coloni...
10. Chapter 10During the Revolutionary war the men of the west for the most part took no share in the actual campaigning against the British and Hessians. Their duty was to conquer and hold t...
5. Chapter 5Clark's successful campaigns against the Illinois towns and Vincennes, besides giving the Americans a foothold north of the Ohio, were of the utmost importance to Kentucky. Unti...
4. Chapter 4Hamilton, at Detroit, had been so encouraged by the successes of his war parties that, in 1778, he began to plan an attack on Fort Pitt [Footnote: Haldimand MSS. Hamilton to Car...
2. Chapter 2In the fall of 1776 it became evident that a formidable Indian war was impending. At Detroit great councils were held by all the northwestern tribes, to whom the Six Nations sen...
8. Chapter 8Seventeen hundred and eighty-two proved to be Kentucky's year of blood. The British at Detroit had strained every nerve to drag into the war the entire Indian population of the...
13. Chapter 13Robertson had no share in the glory of King's Mountain, and no part in the subsequent career of the men who won it; for, at the time, he was doing his allotted work, a work of a...
3. Chapter 3Kentucky had been settled, chiefly through Boon's instrumentality, in the year that saw the first fighting of the Revolution, and it had been held ever since, Boon still playing...
9. Chapter 9The history of Kentucky and the Northwest has now been traced from the date of the Cherokee war to the close of the Revolution. Those portions of the southwestern lands that wer...
6. Chapter 6After the Moravian Indians were led by their missionary pastors to the banks of the Muskingum they dwelt peacefully and unharmed for several years. In Lord Dunmore's war special...
11. Chapter 11John Sevier. John Sevier had no sooner returned from doing his share in defeating foes who were of his own race, than he was called on to face another set of enemies, quite as f...
7. Chapter 7The Virginian Government took immediate steps to provide for the civil administration of the country Clark had conquered. In the fall of 1778 the entire region northwest of the...
14. Chapter 14Robertson passed unharmed through the wilderness to Kentucky. There he procured plenty of powder, and without delay set out on his return journey to the Cumberland. As before, h...
12. Chapter 12agreeable to the first treaty, and all that should be found over the line should be moved off. But it is not done yet. We have done nothing to offend our elder brother since the...
1. Chapter 1APPENDIX A--To CHAPTER I. APPENDIX B--To CHAPTER II. APPENDIX C--To CHAPTER III. APPENDIX D--To CHAPTER IV. APPENDIX E--To CHAPTER VII. APPENDIX F--To CHAPTER VII. APPENDIX G--T...