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
Hugh: 10, 312-313.
Wilmington: 169.
Winchester, Kentucky: 117.
Winchester, Virginia: 12.
Winston, Major Joseph: leads North Carolina troops against Cherokees,
266; leads Surry riflemen at King's Mountain, 293, 298, 303-304.
Wolf Hills (Abingdon): 134.
Wood, Col. Abraham: 42.
Wormley, Ralph: 239.
Wytheville: 112.
Y
Yadkin: country, 117, 131, 139, 143, 145, 163, 164;--Forks of the, 33,
34, 162, 185;--valley, 10, 13, 15, 32.
York, Pennsylvania: 12.
Yorke, Charles: renders legal opinion, 201.
Young Warrior of Estatoe, Cherokee chief: 79; see Silonee.
Z
Zinzendorf, Count: 13.
Transcriber's Notes
Introduction:
We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but
not in the index. Obvious errors were corrected--and all of these
changes can be found in the Detailed Notes Section of these notes. The
Detailed Notes Section also includes issues that have come up during
transcription. One common issue is that words are sometimes split into
two lines for spacing purposes. These words are hyphenated in the
physical book, but there is a question sometimes as to whether the
hyphen should be retained in transcription. The reasons behind some of
these decisions are itemized.
There were numerous errors in the index. Places like the Ouasioto Gap
and the Green River, which were spelled consistently and correctly
throughout the text, ended up as "Onasioto" and "Guen" in the index.
Such errors detract from the index. Therefore, corrections were made to
the index and listed in the Detailed Notes Section.
Detailed Notes Section:
Introduction
• Page viii:
In his letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Dunmore wrote the clause
"Should for ever immagine the Lands further off..." This is a direct
quote; the spelling is correct.
Preface
• Page xvii:
Home-builder is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing
purposes, giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. The word
was not used again in the book. However, "home-makers" was used on Page
17, and the word included a hyphen and was in the middle of the line. We
believe that the author's use of home-makers signals the author's intent
to keep the hyphen in "home-builder." So we kept the hyphen.
Chapter III
• Page 39:
Powder-horn is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing
purposes, giving us two choices on how to transcribe the word. On Page
213, powder-horns with the hyphen appears in the middle of a line. That
was the only other occurrence of the word in the book. Therefore, we
kept the hyphen.
Chapter VI
• Page 68:
The author used the original spelling of the fort on page 68 in the
clause "To this fort, named Fort Loudoun in honor of Lord Loudoun," but
changed the spelling to modern usage (Fort Loudon) on pages 76, 88, and
90. We made no modifications and retained the spelling from the text.
Chapter VII
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