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The winning of the West / by Theodore Roosevelt.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks F351 .R79 1889 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippi River Valley--History.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- History.
- Ohio River Valley--History.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Northwest, Old--History.
- Northwest, Old.
- Louisiana--History.
- Louisiana.
- Kentucky--History.
- Kentucky.
- Tennessee--History.
- Tennessee.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : folded maps. ; 23-24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's sons, 1889-96.
- Contents:
- 1. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776.
- 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783.
- 3. The founding of the trans-Alleghany commonwealths, 1784-1790.
- 4. Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807.
- Vol 1. The spread of the english-speaking peoples
- The French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775
- The Appalachian confederacies, 1765-1775
- The Algonquins of the northwest, 1769-1774
- Backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies, 1769-1774
- Boon and the long hunters; and their hunting in no-man's-land, 1769-1774
- Sevier, Robertson, and the Watauga Commonwealth, 1769-1774
- Lord Dunmore's war, 1774
- The battle of the Great Kanawhal; and Logan's speech, 1774
- Boon and the settlement of kentucky, 1775
- In the current of the revolution-The southern Backwoodsmen overwhelm the Cherolees, 1776
- Growth and civil organization of Kentucky, 1776.
- Vol 2. The war in the northwest, 1777-1778
- Clark's conquest of the Illinois, 1778
- Clark's campaign against Vincennes, 1779
- Continuance of the struggle in Kentucky and the northwest, 1779-1781
- The Moravian massacre, 1779-1782
- The Administration of the conquered French settlements, 1779-1783
- Kentucky until the end of the revolution, 1782-1783
- The Holston Settlements, 1777-1779
- King's Mountain, 1780
- The Holson settlements to the end of the revolution, 1779-1780
- Robertson founds the Cumberland settlements to the close of the revolution, 1781-1783
- What the westerners had done during the revolution.
- Vol 3. The inrush of settlers, 1784-1787
- The Indian Wars, 1784-1787
- The navigation of the Mississippi; Separatist movements and Spanish intrigues, 1784-1788
- The state of Franklin, 1784-1790
- Kentucky's struggle for statehood, 1784-1790
- The northwest territory; Ohio, 1787-1790
- The war in the Northwest, 1787-1790
- The Southwest territory; Tennessee, 1788-1890.
- Vol 4. St. Clairs's defeat, 1791
- Mad Anthony Wayne; and the fight of the fallen timbers, 1792-1795
- Tennesee becomes a state, 1791-1796
- Intrigues and land speculations-the treaties of Jay and Pinckney, 1793-1797
- The men of the western waters, 1798-1802
- The purchase of Louisiana; and Burr's conspiracy, 1803-1807
- The explorers of the far west, 1804-1807.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate (v.3, v.4)
- OCLC:
- 18075462
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