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The Appalachian frontier : America's first surge westward / John Anthony Caruso; with a new introduction by John C. Inscoe; maps by Francis J. Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caruso, John Anthony, author.
- Series:
- Appalachian echoes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Old Southwest.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Southwest, Old--History.
- Southwest, Old.
- Appalachian Region--History.
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 408 pages) : maps (black & white); digital fie(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Newfound Press 2003
- [Place of publication not identified] : Newfound Press, 2003
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction / John C. Inscoe
- 1. Explorers in the Back Country
- 2. The immigrants
- 3. The French and Indian war
- 4. The long hunters in Kentucky
- 5. The regulators of North Carolina
- 6. The Wataugans
- 7. Lord Dunmore's war
- 8. The wilderness trail
- 9. Transylvania
- 10. Siege of Boonesboro
- 11. Pattern of life
- 12. King's Mountain
- 13. Settlements on the Cumberland
- 14. Franklin, the Lost State
- 15. Kentucky: struggle for statehood
- 16. Making of Tennessee
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1959.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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