The Old Northwest By Frederic Austin Ogg A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond Volume 19 of the Chronicles of America Series ∴ Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys Abraham Lincoln Edition New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1919 Copyright, 1919 by Yale University Press Contents The Old Northwest Chapter Chapter Title Page I. Pontiac's Conspiracy 1 II. "A Lair of Wild Beasts" 20 III. The Revolution Begins 41 IV. The Conquest Completed 57 V. Wayne, The Scourge Of The Indians 76 VI. The Great Migration 97 VII. Pioneer Days and Ways 110 VIII. Tecumseh 131 IX. The War Of 1812 And The New West 151 X. Sectional Cross Currents 172 XI. The Upper Mississippi Valley 189 Bibliographical Note 211 Index 215 THE OLD NORTHWEST ∴ CHAPTER I. Pontiac's Conspiracy The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to America and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were signed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, Canada and all its dependencies westward to the Mississippi passed to the British Crown. Virtually ended was the long struggle for the dominion of the New World. Open now for English occupation and settlement was that vast country lying south of the Great Lakes between the Ohio and the Mississippi--which we know as the Old Northwest--today the seat of five great commonwealths of the United States.