ganized as a part of Litchfield, Connecticut), the Ohio Company's
region about Marietta, and Connecticut's Western Reserve on the shores
of Lake Erie; and how the pioneers of the Great Valley and the Piedmont
region of the South crossed the Alleghanies and settled on the Western
Waters. Daniel Boone, going from his Pennsylvania home to the Yadkin,
and from the Yadkin to Tennessee and Kentucky, took part in the whole
process, and later in its continuation into Missouri.[124:2] The social
conditions and ideals of the Old West powerfully shaped those of the
trans-Alleghany West.

The important contrast between the spirit of individual colonization,
resentful of control, which the Southern frontiersmen showed, and the
spirit of community colonization and control to which the New England
pioneers inclined, left deep traces on the later history of the
West.[125:1] The Old West diminished the importance of the town as a
colonizing unit, even in New England. In the Southern area, efforts to
legislate towns into existence, as in Virginia, South Carolina, and
Georgia, failed. They faded away before wilderness conditions. But in
general, the Northern stream of migration was communal, and the Southern
individual. The difference which existed between that portion of the Old
West which was formed by the northward colonization, chiefly of the New
England Plateau (including New York), and that portion formed by the
southward colonization of the Virginia Valley and the Southern Piedmont
was reflected in the history of the Middle West and the Mississippi
Valley.[125:2]

FOOTNOTES:

[67:1] _Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for
1908._ Reprinted with the permission of the Society.

[68:1] For the settled area in 1660, see the map by Lois Mathews in
Channing, "United Stales" (N. Y., 1905), i, p. 510; and by Albert Cook
Myers in Avery, "United States" (Cleveland, 1905), ii, following p. 398.
In Channing, ii, following p. 603, is Marion F. Lansing's map of
settlement in 1760, which is on a rather conservative basis, especially
the part showing the interior of the Carolinas.

Contemporaneous maps of the middle of the eighteenth century, useful in
studying the progress of settlement, are: Mitchell, "Map of the British
Colonies" (1755); Evans, "Middle British Colonies" (1758); Jefferson and
Frye, "Map of Virginia" (1751 and 1755).

On the geographical conditions, see maps and text in Powell,
"Physiographic Regions