The Winning of the American West

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In the year 1898 the United States finished the work begun over a century before by the backwoodsman, and drove the Spaniard outright from the western world. This four-volume edition thoroughly explains the historical process of the conquest of the American West. On more than 1000 pages, former president Theodore Roosevelt described how the Americans fought Indian tribes, British, French, and Spanish troops, and how the United States became the sole masters of the West.

Contents:

From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776

The Spread of the English-speaking Peoples

The French of the Ohio Valley

The Appalachian Confederacies

The Algonquins of the Northwest

Boon and the Long Hunters; and Their Hunting in No-man's-land

Sevier, Robertson, and the Watauga Commonwealth

Lord Dunmore's War

The Battle of the Great Kanawha; and Logan's Speech

Boon and the Settlement of Kentucky

The Southern Backwoodsmen Overwhelm the Cherokees

Growth and Civil Organization of Kentucky

From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1777-1783

The War in the Northwest

Clark's Conquest of the Illinois

Clark's Campaign Against Vincennes

Continuance of the Struggle in Kentucky

The Moravian Massacre

Kentucky Until the End of the Revolution

The Holston Settlements

King's Mountain

Robertson Founds the Cumberland Settlement

What the Westerners Had Done During the Revolution

The Founding of the Trans- Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790

The Inrush of Settlers

The Indian Wars

The Navigation of the Mississippi Separatist Movements and Spanish Intrigues

Kentucky's Struggle for Statehood

The War in the Northwest

The Southwest Territory Tennessee

Louisiana and the Northwest 1791-1807

St. Clair's Defeat

Mad Anthony Wayne