The winning of the West : from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi / Theodore Roosevelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roosevelt, Theodore, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States.

Northwest, Old--History--1775-1865.

Northwest, Old.

West (U.S.)--History--18th century.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1441 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Defeated politically and running out of money after a ranch deal gone bad, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his epic history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He wove a sweeping drama, well documented and filled to the brim with Americans fighting Indian confederacies in the north and south while dealing with the machinations of the British, French, and Spanish and their sympathizers. Roosevelt wanted to show how backwoodsmen such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, followed by hardy pioneer settlers, won the United States the claim to land west of the Alleghanies. Heroism and treach

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Book One: The Spread of English-Speaking Peoples; I. The Spread of the English-Speaking Peoples; II. The French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775; III. The Appalachian Confederacies, 1765-1775; IV. The Algonquins of the Northwest, 1769-1774; V. The Backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies, 1769-1774; VI. Boone and the Long Hunters; and their Hunting in No-Man's-Land, 1769-1774; VII. Sevier, Robertson, and the Watauga Commonwealth, 1769-1774; VIII. Lord Dunmore's War, 1774; Appendices; Appendix A-To Chapter IV

Appendix B-To Chapter VAppendix C-To Chapter VI; Appendix D-To Chapter VI; Appendix E-To Chapter VII; In the Current of the Revolution; I. The Battle of the Great Kanawha; and Logan's Speech, 1774; II. Boone and the Settlement of Kentucky, 1775; III. In the Current of the Revolution-The Southern Backwoodsmen Overwhelm the Cherokees, 1776; Appendix; Appendix A-To Chapter I; Book Two: In the Current of the Revolution (Continued); IV. Growth and Civil Organization of Kentucky, 1776; V. The War in the Northwest, 1777-1778; VI. Clark's Conquest of the Illinois, 1778

VII. Clark's Campaign Against Vincennes, 1779VIII. Continuance of the Struggle in Kentucky and the Northwest, 1779-1781; Appendices; Appendix B-To Chapter V; Appendix C-To Chapter VII; Appendix D-To Chapter VIII; Appendix E-To Chapter VIII; The War in the Northwest; I. The Moravian Massacre, 1779-1782; II. The Administration of the Conquered French Settlements, 1779-1783; III. Kentucky Until the End of the Revolution, 1782-1783; IV. The Holston Settlements, 1777-1779; V. King's Mountain, 1780; VI. The Holston Settlements to the End of the Revolution, 1781-1783; Appendices

Appendix A-To Chapter IIIAppendix B-To Chapter III; Appendix C-To Chapter VI; Book 3: The War in the Northwest (Continued); VII. Robertson Founds the Cumberland Settlement, 1779-1780; VIII. The Cumberland Settlements to the Close of the Revolution, 1781-1783; IX. What the Westerners had Done During the Revolution, 1783; Appendices; Appendix D-To Chapter VIII; Appendix E-To Chapter IX; Appendix F-To Chapter X; Preface; The Indian Wars, 1784-1787; I. The Inrush of Settlers, 1784-1787; II. The Indian Wars, 1784-1787; III. The Navigation of the Mississippi

Separatist Movements and Spanish Intrigues, 1784-1788IV. The State of Franklin, 1784-1788; V. Kentucky's Struggle for Statehood, 1784-1790; St. Clair and Wayne; I. The Northwest Territory; Ohio, 1787-1790; II. The War in the Northwest, 1787-1790; Book Four: St. Clair and Wayne (Continued); III. The Southwest Territory; Tennessee, 1788-1790; IV. St. Clair's Defeat, 1791; V. Mad Anthony Wayne; and the Fight of the Fallen Timbers, 1792-1795; Preface; Louisiana and Aaron Burr; I. Tennessee Becomes a State, 1791-1796

II. Intrigues and Land Speculations-The Treaties of Jay and Pinckney, 1793-1797

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2016).

ISBN:

0-554-46079-3

OCLC:

908108292