The Winning Of The West

By force and by treaty the new nation was established in the East and when theexplorers and settlers pushed against the Mississippi everything west of theriver ... » 

By force and by treaty the new nation was established in the East and when theexplorers and settlers pushed against the Mississippi everything west of theriver was considered part of that nation. This volume continues with thewestward immigration via wilderness trails and keelboats on the Ohio. Rooseveltgives the whole unsettled picture after the Revolution describing theseparatist movement the threat posed by the Spanish possessions skirmisheswith Indians incited by the British operating fur posts on the Great Lakes thedifferences in the struggles for the Northwest and the Southwest and in theirpioneering stock. The introducer is Michael N. McConnell a professor ofhistory at the University of Alabama Birmingham and the author of TheCountry Between The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples 17241774 Nebraska1992. «