of Florida and Oregon, the upbuilding
of the republic of Texas, and the acquisition of New Mexico and
California as the result of the Mexican war.

Theodore Roosevelt

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ALBANY, N. Y.
_January_ 1, 1900.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I.--THE SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

II.--THE FRENCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY, 1763-1775

III.--THE APPALACHIAN CONFEDERACIES, 1765-1775

IV.--THE ALGONQUINS OF THE NORTHWEST, 1769-1774

V.--THE BACKWOODSMEN OF THE ALLEGHANIES, 1769-1774

VI.--BOON AND THE LONG HUNTERS; AND THEIR HUNTING IN NO-MAN'S-LAND,
1769-1774

VII.--SEVIER, ROBERTSON, AND THE WATAUGA COMMONWEALTH, 1769-1774

VIII.--LORD DUNMORE'S WAR, 1774

IX.--THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT KANAWHA; AND LOGAN'S SPEECH, 1774

X.--BOON AND THE SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY, 1775

XI.--IN THE CURRENT OF THE REVOLUTION--THE SOUTHERN BACKWOODSMEN
OVERWHELM THE CHEROKEES, 1776

XII.--GROWTH AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY, 1776

APPENDICES:
APPENDIX A--TO CHAPTER IV.
APPENDIX B--TO CHAPTER V.
APPENDIX C--TO CHAPTER VI.
APPENDIX D--TO CHAPTER VI.
APPENDIX E--TO CHAPTER VII.
APPENDIX F--TO CHAPTER IX.

[Illustration: Map. The West during the Revolution. Showing Hamilton's
route from Detroit to Vincennes; Clark's route from Redstone to the
Illinois, and thence to Vincennes; Boon's trail, on the Wilderness
Road to Kentucky; Robertson's trail to the settlement he founded on
the Cumberland; the water route from the Watauga to Nashboro, that
taken by the _Adventure_; the march of the backwoodsmen from the
Sycamore Shoals to King's Mountain. The flags denote the battles of
the Great Kanawha, the Blue Licks, the Island Flats of the Holston,
and King's Mountain; and the assaults on Boonsboro and Vincennes.
Based on a map by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.]

THE WINNING OF THE WEST.

CHAPTER I.

THE SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES.

During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking
peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most
striking feature in the world's history, but also the event of all
others most far-reaching in its effects and its importance.

The tongue which Bacon feared to use in his writings, lest they should
remain forever unknown to all but the inhabitants of a relatively
unimportant insular kingdom, is now the speech of two continents. The
Common Law which Coke jealously upheld in the southern half of a
single Euro