The Winning of the West Volume 1 - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1230218742 ISBN 13: 9781230218748

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. IN THE CURRENT OF THE REVOLUTION--THE SOUTHERN BACKWOODSMEN OVERWHELM THE CHEROKEES, 1776. The great western drift of our people began almost at the moment when they became Americans, and ceased to be merely British colonists. They crossed the great divide which sundered the springs of the seaboard rivers from the sources of the western waters about the time that American citizens first publicly acted as American freemen, knit together by common ties, and with interests no longer akin to those of the mother country. The movement which was to make the future nation a continental power was begun immediately after the hitherto separate colonies had taken the first step towards solidification. While the communities of the seacoast were yet in a fever heat from the uprising against the stamp tax, the first explorers were toiling painfully to Kentucky, and the first settlers were building their palisaded hamlets on the banks of the Watauga. The year that saw the first Continental Congress saw also the short, grim tragedy of Lord Dunmore's war. The early battles of the Revolution were fought while Boon's comrades were laying the foundations of their commonwealth. 1776] WESTERNERS IN THE REVOLUTION. 273 Hitherto the two chains of events had been only remotely connected; but in 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence, the struggle The between the king and his rebellious sub-Wester°ers jects shook the whole land, and the men of ^"current the western border were drawn headlong of the into the full current of revolutionary war- Revolutlonfare. From that moment our politics became national, and the fate of each portion of our country was thenceforth in some sort dependent upon the welfare of every other. Each section had...

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• ISBN 10: 1230218742
• ISBN 13: 9781230218748
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch