The Winning of the West: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783G.P. Putnam's sons, 1889 - Kentucky From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776.--From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783.--The founding of the trans-Allegheny commonwealths, 1784-1790.--Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807. |
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Page 333 - JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE, INTENDED BY GOD'S PERMISSION, IN THE GOOD BOAT ADVENTURE, FROM FORT PATRICK HENRY, ON HOLSTON RIVER, TO THE FRENCH SALT SPRINGS ON CUMBERLAND RIVER, KEPT BY JOHN DONELSON.
Page 115 - It is out of my power to send any reinforcements to the westward. If the States would fill their continental battalions we should be able to oppose a regular and permanent force to the enemy in every quarter. If they will not, they must certainly take measures to defend themselves by their militia, however expensive and ruinous the system.
Page 75 - ... stiffened, famished, halffrozen followers that the evening would surely see them at the goal of their hopes. Without waiting for an answer, he plunged into the water, and they followed him with a cheer, in Indian file. Before the third man had entered the water...
Page 258 - Benjamin Cleavland, a mighty hunter and Indian fighter, and an adventurous wanderer in the wilderness. He was an uneducated backwoodsman, famous for his great size, and his skill with the rifle, no less than for the curious mixture of courage, rough goodhumor, and brutality in his character. He bore a ferocious hatred to the royalists, and in the course of the vindictive civil war carried on between the whigs and tones in North Carolina he suffered much.
Page 208 - ... time, at their meals together, nor was any household business attempted. Food was prepared, and placed where those who chose could eat. It was the period when Bryant's station was besieged, and for many days before and after that gloomy event, we were in constant expectation of being made prisoners. We made application to Col.
Page 381 - Illinois, which we had settled and conquered during the years of warfare. Our boundary lines were in reality left very vague. On the north the basin of the Great Lakes remained British; on the south the lands draining into the Gulf remained Spanish, or under Spanish influence. The actual boundaries we acquired can be roughly stated in the north to have followed the divide between the waters of the lake and the waters of the Ohio, and in the south to have run across the heads of the Gulf rivers. Had...
Page 5 - Crown and has been a long time in the hands of the Rebels at Fort Pitt, at length has found means to make his escape with three other men, two of the name of Girty (mentioned in Lord Dunmore's list) interpreters...
Page 211 - Kentucky," with a court of common law and chancery jurisdiction coextensive with its limits.
Page 256 - Their fringed and tasseled hunting shirts were girded by bead-worked belts, and the trappings of their horses were stained red and yellow. On their heads they wore caps of coon skin or mink skin, with the tails hanging down, or else felt hats, in each of which was thrust a buck tail or a sprig of evergreen.
Page 316 - Then our elder brother promised to have the line run between us agreeable 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 last treaty, and why should our elder brother want to quarrel with us ? We have sent to the governor of Virginia on the same subject. We hope that between you both, you will take pity on your younger brother, and send Colonel Sevier, who is a good man, to have...