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Title: Pioneers of the Old Southwest
A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground

Author: Constance Lindsay Skinner

Posting Date: February 21, 2009 [EBook #3073]
Release Date: February, 2002

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University, Alev Akman, and Doris Ringbloom

PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST,

A CHRONICLE OF THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND

Volume 18 In The Chronicles Of America Series

By Constance Lindsay Skinner

Acknowledgment

This narrative is founded largely on original sources--on the writings
and journals of pioneers and contemporary observers, such as Doddridge
and Adair, and on the public documents of the period as printed in
the Colonial Records and in the American Archives. But the author is,
nevertheless, greatly indebted to the researches of, other writers,
whose works are cited in the Bibliographical Note. The author's thanks
are due, also, to Dr. Archibald Henderson, of the University of North
Carolina, for his kindness in reading the proofs of this book for
comparison with his own extended collection of unpublished manuscripts
relating to the period.

C. L. S.

April, 1919.

CONTENTS

I. THE TREAD OF PIONEERS
II. FOLKWAYS
III. THE TRADER
IV. THE PASSING OF THE FRENCH PERIL
V. BOONE, THE WANDERER
VI. THE FIGHT FOR KENTUCKY
VII. THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND
VIII. TENNESSEE
IX. KING'S MOUNTAIN
X. SEVIER, THE STATEMAKER
XI. BOONE'S LAST DAYS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST

Chapter I. The Tread Of Pioneers

The Ulster Presbyterians, or "Scotch-Irish," to whom history has
ascribed the dominant role among the pioneer folk of the Old Southwest,
began their migrations to America in the latter years of the seventeenth
century. It is not known with certainty precisely when or where the
first immigrants of their race arrived in this country, but soon a