The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790Henderson, Archibald
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The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
Henderson, Archibald
Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, Old; Kentucky -- History -- To 1792; Southwest, Old -- History; Tennessee -- History
In addition to titles already mentioned, the following books and
monographs give the best accounts of the Watauga and Cumberland
settlements and of the State of Franklin: A. W. Putnam, History of
Middle Tennessee (1859), a remarkably interesting book by a real
"character"; J. W. Caldwell, Constitutional History of Tennessee (second
edition, 1907); F. M. Turner, Life of General John Sevier (1910), in
pedestrian style, reasonably accurate for the romantic period only;
G. H. Alden, The State of Franklin (American Historical Review, 1903);
S. B. Weeks, Joseph Martin (American Historical Association Report,
1894); Archibald Henderson, Isaac Shelby (North Carolina Booklet,
1917-1918). The source book for the Indian war of 1774 is Documentary
History of Dunmore's War (Edited by R. G. Thwaites and L. P. Kellogg,
1905). For exhaustive data concerning the King's Mountain campaign and
its preliminaries, read L. C. Draper, King's Mountain and its Heroes
(1881), though the book is lacking in discrimination and deficient in
perspective. For a briefer treatment, read D. L. Schenck, North
Carolina, 1780-1781 (1889).
Other books and monographs dealing with the period, the westward
movement, the settlement of the trans-Alleghany, and the little
governments, to be consulted are: James Hall, Sketches of the West (2
vols., 1835) and The Romance of Western History (1857); Journals of the
House of Burgesses of Virginia for 1766-1769 and 1770-1772 (published
1906); G. H. Alden, New Governments West of the Alleghanies before 1780
(published 1897); C. W. Alvord, The Mississippi Valley in British
Politics (2 vols., 1917), a notable work, ably written and embodying an
immense amount of information; J. T. Morehead, Address at Boonesborough,
May 25, 1840 (published 1840); F. J. Turner, The Significance of the
Frontier in American History (Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings,
1894) and Western State-Making in the Revolutionary Era (American
Historical Review, 1895-1896), papers characterised by both brilliance
and depth; and Archibald Henderson, The Creative Forces in Westward
Expansion (American Historical Review, 1914), The Occupation of Kentucky
in 1775 (Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1914), The Founding of
Nashville (Tennessee Historical Magazine, 1916), and The Spanish
Conspiracy in Tennessee (Tennessee Historical Magazine, 1917).
On the subject of Indian tribes and Indian treaties, the Annual Reports
of the Bureau of Ethnology, in especial numbers 5, 18, and 19, although
compiled from secondary historical sources and occasionally erroneous in
important matters, are useful--as is also Bulletin 22: J. Mooney, Siouan
Tribes of the East (1895). Rare and interesting works dealing with the
Eastern Indian tribes are H. Timberlake, Memoirs (1765); J. Haywood,
Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee (1823); and J. Adair,
American Indians (1775).
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