Wilderness War on the Ohio
Author: Alan Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780977614707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alan Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780977614707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allan W. Eckert
Publisher:
Published: 1999-08
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780553134629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Niagara Falls to Lake Champlain, the warriors of the mighty Iroquois ruled supreme. Not even the savagery of the French and Indian wars could cool their fury or halt their power. But by 1770 the restless white men were warring once again. Thayendanegea, the valiant Iroquois war chief, allied his fierce tribes with the one white man the Indians loved and trusted, Sir William Johnson. Once more the frontier would erupt, pitting the Indians' unvanquished spirit against the white setters' relentless challenge. Allan W. Eckert's Narratives of America are true sagas of the brave men and courageous women who won our land. Every character and event in this sweeping series is drawn from actual history and woven into the vast and powerful epic that was America's westward expansion. Allan W. Eckert has made America's heritage an authentic, exciting, and powerful reading experience.
Author: Emily Foster
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0813158222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization -- and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers -- hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants -- established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe, the Wyandots, left in 1843, they were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience came to a close. Anyone fascinated by the panorama of America's westward migration will respond to the dramatic stories told in these pages.
Author: Alan Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780977614738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →18th Century Historical Fiction focusing on adoption of white captives and mixed marriages of Natives and white settlers and their descendants in the Eastern Frontier and Ohio Country. Based on historical research.
Author: Richard Scamyhorn
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780990535126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the Ohio River-Great Lakes region, decades of conflict between pioneer settlers and Native American nations erupted into full-scale war in the 1790s. As new communities such as Cincinnati, Columbia, and North Bend were founded throughout the vast Miami Purchase, southern Ohio became the bloody battleground of this nameless war. To counter the ever-present threat of attack, southwestern Ohio's pioneering settlers "forted up" in small stockades and fortified cabins that offered some protection for their families. Today, nothing is visibly left of these vital protective "stations" except a few historic markers or local cemeteries. In this book, you will discover their people, their stories, their locations, and their role in the war that ended with the Treaty of Greeneville in 1795, and how and why some of them developed into the southern Ohio communities that we know today.
Author: Allan W. Eckert
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2011-03-30
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 0307790460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.
Author: Thomas I. Pieper
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780873382403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fort Laurens was erected on the banks of the Tuscarawas River in Ohio in the fall of 1778 as the planned first step to secure the Western Frontier in the Revolutionary War. This book is the first complete account of the fort's history, drawing on all the documentary evidence available and placing it in the context of the larger struggle for independence.
Author: Robert Stoddart Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781436854917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.