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Title: The Winning of the West, Volume Two
From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Release Date: April 7, 2004 [EBook #11942]

Language: English

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PRESIDENTIAL EDITION

THE WINNING OF THE WEST

BY

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

VOLUME TWO

FROM THE ALLEGHANIES TO THE MISSISSIPPI 1777-1783

WITH MAPS

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH HIS PERMISSION TO

FRANCIS PARKMAN

TO WHOM AMERICANS WHO FEEL A PRIDE IN THE PIONEER HISTORY OF THEIR
COUNTRY ARE SO GREATLY INDEBTED

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I.--THE WAR IN THE NORTHWEST, 1777-1778.

II.--CLARK'S CONQUEST OF THE ILLINOIS, 1778.

III.--CLARK'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST VINCENNES, 1779.

IV.--CONTINUANCE OF THE STRUGGLE IN KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST,
1779-1781.

V.--THE MORAVIAN MASSACRE, 1779-1782.

VI.--THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONQUERED FRENCH SETTLEMENTS, 1779-1783.

VII.--KENTUCKY UNTIL THE END OF THE REVOLUTION, 1782-1783.

VIII.--THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS, 1777-1779.

IX--KING'S MOUNTAIN, 1780.

X.--THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS TO THE END OF THE REVOLUTION, 1781-1783.

XI.--ROBERTSON FOUNDS THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENT, 1779-1780.

XII.--THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENTS TO THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION,
1781-1783.

XIII.--WHAT THE WESTERNERS HAD DONE DURING THE REVOLUTION.

APPENDICES:

APPENDIX A--To CHAPTER I.
APPENDIX B--To CHAPTER II.
APPENDIX C--To CHAPTER III.
APPENDIX D--To CHAPTER IV.
APPENDIX E--To CHAPTER VII.
APPENDIX F--To CHAPTER VII.
APPENDIX G--To CHAPTER X.
APPENDIX H--To CHAPTER XII.
APPENDIX I--To CHAPTER XIII.
APPENDIX J--To CHAPTER XIII.

INDEX

[Illustration: The Colonies in 1774, when the First Continental Congress
assembled. The heavy line marks roughly the extension of population
westward. Based on a map by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.]

[Illustration: The States in 1783, when peace was declared. Based