Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.
Contents
Chapters : The First Settlers / Clash of Cultures / Revolution in The Ohio Country / The Road to HellFallen Timbers / Ohio Fever / Early Settlements / Farm Country / The Frontier People / The Religious Frontier / Confederacy and War / Farmers: First and Last / Settled Community
Summary
"R. Douglas Hurt's book on the frontier period ...begins in the late 1500's with conflict between the Iroquois confederation and the Erie Indians. Shawnees, Wyandots, and other Native American groups complicated the picture, and the arrival of the French in the mid-1600s produced an extremely complex mix of accomodation, conflict, warfare, and mutual economic advantage. Still more players - the British by 1750 and the newly independent Americans after 1775 - muddied matters even further. Hurt introduces us to the great Indian diplomat Pontiac, who led a nearly successful defense against British aggression in 1764; to the Indian killer Jeffrey Amherst; to Daniel Boone and the American soldiers George Rogers Clark and "Mad" Anthony Wayne; to dozens of speculators and settlers who swooped down upon Ohio from the 1780's on, people such as Ebenezer Zane of Zane's Trace and Zanesville; to Shakers and Quakers; to Tecumseh's resistance of 1811; and finally to fugitive African American slaves and immigrant canal-builders."
