Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vivid panorama of the transitional years when Ohio evolved from a raw frontier territory to an established province of an ever-expanding nation.” —Booklist Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than on the Ohio frontier. First settled by migrating Native Americans about 1720 and later by white settlers, Ohio became the crucible which set indigenous and military policy throughout the region. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, and Delawares, among others, fought to preserve their land claims. A land of opportunity, refuge, and violence for both Native Americans and whites, Ohio served as the political, economic, and social foundation for the settlement of the Old Northwest. “Finally, after nearly twenty-five years, a high-quality general history of the frontier period of the state of Ohio . . . [A] dynamic account . . . that should delight both Transappalachian frontier scholars and interested amateurs.” —History “This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830.” —Journal of the Early Republic

Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization -- and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers -- hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants -- established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe, the Wyandots, left in 1843, they were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience came to a close. Anyone fascinated by the panorama of America's westward migration will respond to the dramatic stories told in these pages.

Download or read book American Grit written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.

Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology—the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others—are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization—and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers—hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants—established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe, the Wyandots, left in 1843, they were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience came to a close. Anyone fascinated by the panorama of America's westward migration will respond to the dramatic stories told in these pages.

Download or read book Life On the Ohio Frontier written by Jacqueline Bachar and published by Rowhouse Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once more, I lift my pen to let you know that through the mercy of Him that never sleeps nor slumbers, we are all alive and in common health." --Mary Lott These letters tell the story of Mary Phillips Lott and describe the sadness and tribulations of life on the Ohio frontier. Since Mary Lott's grave is unknown and documentation of her life almost non-existent, the book marks her memory and place in history. Readers will be struck by her courage and inner strength in a time of hardship and adversity, the strong religious faith she expressed, her expressions of family longing, and the ultimate fact of facing her future alone. After Mary's husband died, an inventory of possessions was taken and included, incongruously, one red fan. A memento from a happier time and place perhaps, it evokes a vision of a woman filled with hopes and dreams moving forward into the future. Mary Lott's life should be considered a proud tribute to all the women who went before and came after clutching and cherishing their own red fans. Life On the Ohio Frontier includes illustrations, maps, ancestral charts, and many references to family and friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book received an Honorable Mention Award in the Anna Ford Family Book Contest (Heart of America Genealogical Society & Library, Kansas City, Missouri). "For the genealogist, Mary's letters show clearly the 'chain' migration of many nineteenth-century pioneer families, portraying the rhythms of frontier life, the vulnerability to the elements, the often unrelenting loneliness, the importance of a helping hand from the community in times of need, and ultimately our ancestors' faith in God to see them through." --Ralph J. Crandall "These letters from Mary Lott of Delaware County, Ohio to her long separated older brother in Pennsylvania tell of daily life on the frontier--the poverty, the hardship, the poor health that prevailed and the longing of Mary to visit her family in Pennsylvania, always prevented by lack of money, suitable traveling companions, and poor transportation. Although some genealogical information and many clues are included this is not intended to be a family history. The letters of Mary Lott will be of interest to students of pioneer Ohio and women's studies." --Ohio Genealogical Society Report Jacqueline Bachar is the editor of Poetry in The Garden, an anthology of California women poets. In 1995, she spoke about her relative Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the United Nations during their 50th anniversary celebration in New York and, in 1998, received the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Appreciation Award from the National Council of Women. At the Woman of Distinction in the Arts Luncheon in 2010, Bachar was awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the National League of PEN Women, Palm Springs.

Download or read book Life on the Ohio Frontier written by Mary Lott and published by International Forum. This book was released on 1994 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Phillips Lott (1782-1846) was probably born in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Francis and Demis Aylesworth Phillips. Mary married Henry Lott (1773-1844) and they settled in Kingston, Delaware County, Ohio.

Download or read book Ohio History Resource Guide for Frontier Ohio written by Byron H. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Frontier with St Clair written by Charles Seely Wood and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Ohio Hunter written by Samuel E. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clements Library's catalogue describes it as 'one of the most fascinating accounts of the life of a frontier hunter in print.'" Streeter. The book, says Graff, "is endlessly fascinating, for while some of the episodes are close to fancy, most of them are probably based on fact, if not wholly accurate. Many of Edwards' adventures occurred in Michigan." "The narrative is quite interesting, verging in numerous instances into romance, but it nevertheless has every appearance of being true to fact. Most of the incidents enumerated took place in Pickaway and Hancock Counties." Thomson.

Download or read book New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier written by Virginia E. McCormick and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the founding and development of Worthington, Ohio to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the Western frontier. It provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement.

Download or read book Border Life written by Elizabeth A. Perkins and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pioneering source in oral history. In the 1840s, the Reverend John Dabney Shane conducted hundreds of interviews with surviving western settlers, gathering their recollections on topics ranging from food preparation to encounters with Native Americans. Although Shane's interviews have long been hailed as a rich, if complicated, source for western history, Perkins is the first scholar to consider them critically, as texts for cultural analysis. Border Life also deepens our understanding of how ordinary people struggled to make sense of their own lives within the stream of history. Discovering a significant disjuncture between recorded memory and written history in accounts of the early frontier, Perkins shows how historians and popular authors reshaped the messy complexities of remembered experience into heroic--and radically simplified--conquest narratives.

Download or read book American Grit written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.

Download or read book No Man Knows This Country Better written by Gary S. Williams and published by Ohio History and Culture. This book was released on 2022-06-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man, who, in sixty years on the frontier, served as a military officer in every major conflict, but who is better known for using his linguistic skills and knowledge of Native American ways to promote peace.

Download or read book The Ohio Hunter written by Samuel E. Edwards and published by . This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advancing the Ohio Frontier written by Frazer Ells Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Advancing the Ohio Frontier: A Saga of the Old Northwest The tendency of the conquering race to belittle, or distort theaccomplishments of their former enemies, is unfortunate. This atti' tude the author has aimed to avoid and to endeavor always to extricate the true story from the confusing, and Often contradictory, mass of tradition and broken border records. In spite of the blood, thirsty stories there is much in the life and practices Of the American Indians that deserves commendation, and one has the suspicion that their distinctive finer qualities were Often suppressed under the pressure of a relentless and greedy foe endeavoring to seize and occupy their ancient homes and hunting grounds and thus drive them farther and still farther to the rougher and less desirable sections of a rapidly expanding state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Frontier Indiana written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most history concentrates on the broad sweep of events, battles and political decisions, economic advance or decline, landmark issues and events, and the people who lived and made these events tend to be lost in the big picture. Cayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Josiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others. Focusing his account on these and other representative individuals, Cayton retells the story of Indiana's settlement in a human and compelling narrative which makes the experience of exploration and settlement real and exciting. Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.

Download or read book Builders of Ohio written by Warren R. Van Tine and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Tine and Pierces "Builders of Ohio is composed of twenty-four essays that use biography to explore Ohio's history. Collectively, they provide a historical overview of the state's development from George Croghan's search for fame and fortune on the seventeenth-century frontier through Dave Thomas's more recent creation of a fast-food empire. Each chapter also addresses important events and transformations in the state's history such as: European settlement; Native American resistance; the creation of territorial and state governments; the development of the state's educational and economic institutions; the disruption created by the Civil War; the struggle of African Americans and women to participate in Ohio's public life; efforts to ameliorate the pernicious effects of industrialization; the negotiation of the state's role in a nation increasingly dominated by the federal government; or the ramifications of de-industrialization and rise of a service economy.