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The Ohio Frontier Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830 R. Douglas Hurt "This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830." --Journal of the Early Republic Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against an army that was incompetent at the beginning but highly trained and disciplined in the end. Sales territory is worldwide A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier 1996; 440 pages, 23 b&w photos, 7 maps, bibl. essay, index, 6 x 9 cloth 0-253-33210-9 $39.95 L / £28.50 paper 0-253-21212-X $19.95 t / £14.50… (meer)
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For Mary Ellen, Adlai, and Austin OHIOANS
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For most Americans, the phrase "the American West" conjures up the western half of the nation. From the Great Plains across the Rockies and the Intermontane Plateaus to the Pacific Ocean ....
In 1843, the July sun fell heavy on theWyandots, and the dust rose in a haze from beneath the horse's' hooves and wagon wheels as they moved slowly south toward Cincinnati and the waiting steamboats that would take them from Ohio forever.
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Indeed, by 1840, then, with Ohio on the verge of losing population to other states for the first time, and with two major canals completed, a two-horse hitch on the towpath and canal boats symbolized as well as anything the end of the Ohio frontier.
The Ohio Frontier Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830 R. Douglas Hurt "This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830." --Journal of the Early Republic Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against an army that was incompetent at the beginning but highly trained and disciplined in the end. Sales territory is worldwide A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier 1996; 440 pages, 23 b&w photos, 7 maps, bibl. essay, index, 6 x 9 cloth 0-253-33210-9 $39.95 L / £28.50 paper 0-253-21212-X $19.95 t / £14.50