Antique US WESTERN EXPLORATION Indian & Revolutionary War Pioneer Frontier Forts

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Antique US WESTERN EXPLORATION Indian & Revolutionary War Pioneer Frontier Forts:
$299.99

THE WINNING OF THE WEST. Complete Set of Six Volumes. By Theodore Roosevelt. © 1889, 1906 Published by The Current Literature Publishing Company, New York. 7 1/2 “ x 4 1/2 “ quarter-suede and cloth hardcovers. Illustrated with frontispieces. Vol I = 288 pages. Vol II = 331 pages. Vol III = 320 pages. Vol IV = 263 pages. Vol V = 230 pages. Vol VI = 308 pages.

Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Complete set in good, solid, clean condition. Exteriors as shown in photos. Bindings are firm. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. A very nice example of this 109-year-old complete six-volume set.

Description:

When folks today hear the words “western frontier,” they immediately think of cowboys, the gold rush and places like Colorado, Utah, Texas, and California. But in the 18th century – in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War – America’s frontier had pushed only as far west as Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Beyond that stretched a mysterious wilderness, the mighty Mississippi River and the towering Rocky Mountains -- Indian country, inhabited by tribes intent on defending their lands and way of life against white intruders.

This is an epic six-volume history of the expansion, exploration and settlement of America’s frontier in the 18th century. It was written in 1889 by Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to become our 26th President.

In the Preface, he writes:

I would say that it has been to me a labor of love to write of the great deeds of the border people. I am not blind to their manifold shortcomings, nor yet am I ignorant of their many strong and good qualities. For a number of years I spent most of my time on the frontier, and lived and worked like any other frontiersman. The wild country in which we dwelt and across which we wandered was in the far west: and there were of course many features in which the life of a cattleman on the Great Plains and the Rockies differed from that led by a backwoodsman in the Alleghany forests a century before.

Yet the points of resemblance were far more numerous and striking. We guarded our herds of branded cattle and shaggy horses, hunted bear, bison, elk and deer, established civil government, and put down the evil-doers, white and red, on the banks of the little Missouri and among the wooded, precipitous foothills of the Bighorn, exactly as did the pioneers who a hundred years previously built their log cabins beside the Kentucky or in the valleys of the Great Smokies. The men who have shared in the fast vanishing frontier life of the present feel a peculiar sympathy with the already long-vanished frontier life of the past.

To try to summarize such a wide-ranging story in the space of a few paragraphs would not do justice to this wonderful set of books. There is just so much here about pioneer settlements, wilderness forts, early river navigation, Daniel Boone, the life of the backwoodsmen, bloody Indian battles, etc., that I wouldn’t know where to begin.

For that reason, I have prepared summaries of each volume’s contents, along with a sampler of the many, many names, places and topics mentioned in these six volumes. You’ll find all of it waiting for you below, along with some photos of the set and its illustrations.

All of this is to help you make an informed decision when offerding. I hope you’ll take a few moments to have a look.

Contents Are:

Volume One – The Spread of English-Speaking Peoples: (1) The Spread of the English-Speaking Peoples (2) The French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775 (3) The Appalachian Confederacies, 1765-1775 (4) The Algonquins of the Northwest, 1769-1774 (5) The Backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies, 1769-1774 (6) Boone and the Longhunters; And Their Hunting in No-Man’s-Land, 1769-1774 (7) Sevier, Robertson, and the Watauga Commonwealth, 1769-1774 (8) Lord Dunmore’s War, 1774

Volume Two – In the Current of the Revolution: (1) The Battle of the Great Kanawha; And Logan’s Speech, 1884 (2) Daniel Boone and the Settlement of Kentucky (3) In the Current of the Revolution – The Southern Backwoodsmen Overwhelm the Cherokees, 1776 (4) Growth and Civil Organization of Kentucky, 1775 (5) The War in the Northwest, 1777-1778 (6) Clark’s Conquest of the Illinois, 1778 (7) Clark’s Campaign Against Vincennes, 1779 (8) Continuance of the Struggle in Kentucky and the Northwest, 1779-1781

Volume Three – The War in the Northwest: (1) The Moravian Massacre, 1779 (2) The Administration of the Conquered French Settlements, 1779-1783 (3) Kentucky Until the End of the Revolution, 1782-1783 (4) The Holston Settlements, 1777-1779 (5) King’s Mountain, 1780 (6) The Holston Settlements to the End of the Revolution, 1781-1783 (7) Robertson Founds the Cumberland Settlement, 1779-1780 (8) The Cumberland Settlements to the Close of the Revolution, 1781-1783 (9) What the Westerners Had Done During the Revolution

Volume Four – The Indian Wars, 1764-1787, Franklin, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee: (1) The Inrush of Settlers, 1784-1787 (2) The Indian Wars, 1784-1787 (3) The Navigation of the Mississippi: Separatist Movements and Spanish Intrigues, 1784-1788 (4) The State of Franklin, 1784-1788 (5) Kentucky’s Struggle for Statehood

Volume Five – St. Clair and Wayne: (1) The Northwest Territory; Ohio, 1787-1790 (2) The War in the Northwest, 1787-1790 (3) The Southwest Territory; Tennessee, 1788-1890 (4) St Clair’s Defeat, 1791 (5) Mad Anthony Wayne; and the Fight of the Fallen Timbers, 1792-1795

Volume Six – Louisiana and Aaron Burr: (1) Tennessee Becomes a State (2) Intrigues and Land Speculations – The Treaties of Jay and Pinckney, 1793-1797 (3) The Men on the Western Waters, 1798-1802 (4) The Purchase of Louisiana; And Burr’s Conspiracy, 1803-1807 (5) The Explorers of the Far West, 1804-1807

Names, Places and Topics Include: Algonquins of the Northwest * Backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies * Henry Bird expedition * Blennerhassett’s Island * Blount College * Blue Licks disaster * Bluff, first Cumberland settlement * Boling Springs, Kentucky * Boonesborough * Daniel Boone: his capture and rescue of his daughters; captured by Indians; at Blue Licks; as a trader; his religion; his migration to Missouri * Boone’s Trace or Wilderness Road * John Bowman expedition * Bryan’s Station * Aaron Burr: his early career; conspiracy; plan to seize Washington and kidnap Jefferson; duplicity of; his conspiracy attacked by Federalists; expedition of, down the Mississippi; seized at Natchez * Cabins of frontier settlers * Cahokia * Caldwell and McKee’s attack on Kentucky * Arthur Campbell’s expedition against the Cherokees * William Campbell hangs a Tory * Canadians supply war material to Northwest Indians * Fight at Cane Creek * Baron de Carondelet ftis out Indians against the settlers * Cherokee Indians crushed by Virginia settlers * Ravages of Chickamauga * Chickasaw Bluffs * Chickasaw Indians * Chippewa Indians * Choctaw Indians * William Christian expedition against the Cherokees * Founding of Cincinnati * Freebooting expedition of Elijah Clark * George Rogers Clark,: treaty with Illinois Indians; marches against Vincennes; expedition to the Ohio; expedition against the Indians; expedition to the Wabash; retaliates against the Spaniards; leads movement for conquest of Louisiana * William Clark,: in Wayne’s army; expedition with Lewis; made Governor of Missouri Territory * Henry Clay at Lexington Ky * Connecticut cedes western claims to government * Connecticut Reserve taken into the US * Captain John Connolly * Chief Cornplanter of the Iroquois * Cornstalk, Shawnee Chief, at Battle of Great Kanawha * Cornwallis in the South * Court day in the settlements * Frontier courts of justice * Colonel William Crawford’s expedition, capture and torture by Delaware Indians * Creek Indians * Creole traders on the Mississippi River * Murder of Michael Cresap by Indians * Cumberland River and Gap * The Cumberland settlements * Delaware Indians become hostile * Detroit * Doherty’s description * John Donclson expedition down the Tennessee River * Joseph Doniphan, first schoolmaster at Boonesborough * Lord Dorchester’s speech to Northwest Indian chiefs * Alcohol among the Indians * Cherokee Chief Dragging Canoe * Dunmore’s War * Attitude of the East towards western expansion * Battle of Eseneka * Indian raid on Estill’s Station * Battle of Fallen Timbers * Far West in 1804 * Patrick Ferguson at King’s Mountain; his death * Colonel John Field * Decay of Spanish colonies in East Florida * Kentucky pioneer John Floyd and his expedition * Forests of the early frontiers * Fort Confederation * Fort Defiance * Fort Mandan * Attack on Fort Recovery * Fort Stanwix * Fort Wayne * Benjamin Franklin and his stand for the Indians * State of Franklin * Attack on Freeland’s Station * French settlers * Don Bernard de Galvez attacks West Florida * Early game laws in Kentucky * Wild game in Kentucky * Georgia in the Indian War * Colonel John Gibson’s treatment of Moravians * Simon Girty * Earliest western government * Crime of Greathouse * Great Island treaty with Cherokees * Greenville constituted capital of Franklin * Greenville Treaty with Northwest Indians * Grizzly bears first seen by Lewis and Clark * First gunboat on western waters * Henry Hamilton, British leader of Indians * Col. John Hardin in Harmar’s expedition; in Scott’s expedition; his murder by Indians * Hardships of the frontier * General Harmar and the disastrous expedition of 1790 * W.H. Harrison made Governor of Indian Territory * Harrodstown Ky * Thomas Hart, land speculator * James Henderson’s treaty with Cherokees * Hiawassee towns destroyed * Holston settlements * Early Kentuckians’ fondness for horses * Horse thievery by the Indians * The backwoods hunter * Iroquois Indians * Battle of Island Flats * Expedition of Colonel Jack Sam * Andrew Jackson * John Jay on Mississippi navigation * Thomas Jefferson and his stand for the west * The Great Battle of Kanawha * Kaskaskia in 1784 * Clark’s capture of Kaskaskia * Simon Kenton and his adventures * Kentucky and its settlement * Battle of King’s Mountain * John Kirk murders Cherokee chiefs * Founding of Knoxville * Land speculation in Tennessee * Land companies and their intrigues in the Southwest * Leni or Lenni Lenape Indians * Meriwether Lewis * Lewis and Clark expedition * Liquor trade with the Indians * Benjamin Logan’s expedition against the Shawnee * Indian attack against Logan’s Station, Kentucky * Logan, the Iroquois * The Long Hunters * Acquisition and early settlements in Louisiana * Beginning of Louisville * Lynch law among backwoodsmen * Kasper Mansker, early settler on the Cumberland * McAfee brothers * Robert McAfee * McAfee’s Station * Methodism established in Tennessee * Methodist zeal in the west * Miami Company in Ohio * Miami Indians * Miami towns destroyed by Wayne * Milfort, adventurer * Military organization of frontiersmen * Mingo Indians * Mississippi River and its importance to the settlements * Hazards of traffic on the Mississippi * Mississippi Territory organized * Molunthe, Shawnee chief * Scarcity of money in the West * Morales closes New Orleans to American trade * Morality of backwoodsmen * Moravian Indians and the massacre of * Colonel George Morgan * Muscogee Indians * Napoleon’s early plans for Louisiana * Nashborough founded * Indian attack on Nashborough * Possession of Natchez by U.S. * Neetmok country * How the Northwest was settled * James 0’Fallon, commander of the Yazoo expedition * Oconostota, Cherokee chief * Ohio admitted to the Union * Ohio River traffic * Territory of Orleans * Ottawa Indians * Zebulon M. Pike explores the Northwest * Fort Pitt claimed by Virginians * Adventure of Adam and Andrew Poe * Pottawattomies * Poverty of the frontier * Origin of the name “prairie” * Priests in old Vincennes * Rufus Putnam * Red River half-breeds * Regulars compared to militia * Religion among backwoodsmen * Religious sects in early Kentucky and Tennessee * Republican River * Rifle of backwoodsman * Rio Grande reached by Pike’s expedition * James Robertson * General Griffith’s expedition against the Cherokee * Sacs and Fox Indians * St Augustine in 1783 * Arthur St Clair as Governor of 0hio settlements * St Clair’s expedition against the Indians * Great Indian council at Sandusky * Sandusky Indians * Saskatchewan * Frontier schools * Scolacutta, Cherokee * Scotch-Irish settlers * James Seagrove, Indian agent * Settlers rush to the West * John Sevier and his exploits * Shawnee Indians * Even Shelby punishes the Chickamaugas * Slavery in the West * Slover’s capture and escape * Indian troubles of South Carolina * How the Southwest was settled * Spain’s hold on the Mississippi Country * Stockade forts * Sullivan County, Tennessee, established * Early settlements in Tennessee * Texas acquired by settlers * Transylvania colony * Federal treaties with Cumberland Indians * Tuskega burned * Vincennes in 1778 * Wabash settlements * War trails as emigrant roads * Siege of Fort Watavga * Watavga settlement * John Watts, half breed * Anthony Wayne: drills his army; destroys Miami Indian towns; wins battle of Fallen Timbers * Wedding among backwoodsmen * Growth of the west * What the Westerners accomplished * Fort Wheeling or Fort Henry * The Wilderness Road * Treachery of James Wilkinson * Colonel William Andrew expedition against the Cherokees * Colonel David Williamson and the Moravians * Winnebago Indians * Witchcraft in Illinois * Woodcraft versus mountaineering * Wyandot Indians * Operations of the Yazoo Company

Remember folks, this is an original 1906 6-volume set. These books are 109 years old.

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