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
Tennessee Becomes a State
Intrigues and Land Speculations— Treaties of Jay and Pinckney
The Men of the Western Waters
The Purchase of Louisiana and Burr's Conspiracy
The Explorers of the Far West
