Winning of the West : From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1769-1776 : Wit...

Description: Winning of the West : From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1 : With Map, Paperback by Roosevelt, Theodore, ISBN 0803289545, ISBN-13 9780803289543, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He projected a sweeping drama, well documented and filled with Americans fighting Indian confederacies north and south while dealing with the machinations of the British, French, and Spanish and their sympathizers. Roosevelt wanted to show how backwoodsmen such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, followed by hardy pioneer settlers, gave the United States eventual claim to land west of the Alleghanies. Heroism and treachery among both the whites and the Indians can be seen in his rapidly shifting story of a people on the move. By force and by treaty the new nation was established in the East, and when the explorers and settlers pushed against the Mississippi, everything west of the river was considered part of that nation. This volume describes the first settlers from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina moving out to the land between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. It proved to be a dark and bloody ground bordered by Indian tribes. Boone and the Long Hunters cut their way through the forests into Kentucky, John Sevier campaigned against the Cherokees, families huddled in wilderness forts.

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Book Title: Winning of the West Vol. 1 : from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776

Item Length: 9.8in

Item Height: 0.6in

Item Width: 5.9in

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / General

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Publication Year: 1995

Genre: History

Item Weight: 14.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 353 Pages