The Appalachian Frontier: America’s First Surge WestwardPickle Partners Publishing, 07/04/2017 - 365 páginas John A. Caruso’s The Appalachian Frontier is a stirring drama of the beginnings of American westward expansion. It traces the advance of the frontier in the area between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers and the development of the American character—those attitudes toward personal liberty and dignity that have come to epitomize our national ideal. The Appalachian Frontier is no mere catalog of facts; it is a recreation of life. Not until about 1650, more than a generation after the first English settlements were established on the eastern coast, did organized bands of white explorers, hunters and fur trappers venture very far into the trackless back country claimed by the British Crown. Beginning with those earliest scouting parties The Appalachian Frontier presses with the pioneers past the Fall Line and the pine barrens into the Piedmont of Virginia, on through gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Great Valley of the Appalachians, through the Great Valley to the jagged peaks of the Allegheny Front and, finally, over those peaks into the rich country of Kentucky and Tennessee. As the frontiersman advances he discovers that the rules prevailing in the European-dominated eastern settlements do not apply in his new situation. Thus we see him formulate the rudiments of a law of his own. As his life grows more complex, he frames compacts and, finally; constitutions peculiarly adapted to the exigencies of frontier living. We are present at the inception of the fluid democracy that later engulfed the more stable coastal colonies and ultimately came to characterize the government of the United States. The story closes, quite properly, with the admission of Tennessee into the Union in 1796. In John A. Caruso’s bright, informal, sometimes almost racy telling of the tale, historical personages emerge as real people whose triumphs and heartaches we share, with whose deficiencies and inadequacies we sympathize, and in whose hours of nobility we rejoice. |
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... cabin near the present site of Elkton. The land pleased him so much that he hurried back to Pennsylvania to fetch his family and to spread word of his good fortune among his former neighbors. They and some of their friends followed him ...
... cabin near the present site of Elkton. The land pleased him so much that he hurried back to Pennsylvania to fetch his family and to spread word of his good fortune among his former neighbors. They and some of their friends followed him ...
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... cabin destined to become the center of German migration that eventually helped to fill the back country of Virginia. With Hite and his family came his three sons-in-law, their families and a few of their friends. Each man in this group ...
... cabin destined to become the center of German migration that eventually helped to fill the back country of Virginia. With Hite and his family came his three sons-in-law, their families and a few of their friends. Each man in this group ...
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... cabin “large enough that we could all lie down around the walls.” In this mansion, descended miraculously from heaven, they held a love-feast in imitation of the early Christians while wolves padded and howled outside. And in that ...
... cabin “large enough that we could all lie down around the walls.” In this mansion, descended miraculously from heaven, they held a love-feast in imitation of the early Christians while wolves padded and howled outside. And in that ...
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... cabin he built. In the summer of 1755 they learned that General Edward Braddock, starting for Fort Duquesne with 1,400 redcoats, 450 Virginia militiamen under Washington and 50 Indian scouts, had met tragic defeat at the hands of 600 ...
... cabin he built. In the summer of 1755 they learned that General Edward Braddock, starting for Fort Duquesne with 1,400 redcoats, 450 Virginia militiamen under Washington and 50 Indian scouts, had met tragic defeat at the hands of 600 ...
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... cabin raised by white hands between the Cumberland and Ohio rivers.{81} Walker and his men are remembered only for their discovery of Cumberland Gap, but what they missed in achievement they more than made up in adventure. Once a bear ...
... cabin raised by white hands between the Cumberland and Ohio rivers.{81} Walker and his men are remembered only for their discovery of Cumberland Gap, but what they missed in achievement they more than made up in adventure. Once a bear ...
Índice
9TRANSYLVANIA 117 | |
10SIEGE OF BOONESBORO 134 | |
11PATTERN OF LIFE 154 | |
12KINGS MOUNTAIN 175 | |
13SETTLEMENTS ON THE CUMBERLAND 188 | |
14FRANKLIN THE LOST STATE 209 | |
STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD 232 | |
16MAKING OF TENNESSEE 253 | |
6THE WATAUGANS 75 | |
7LORD DUNMORES WAR 88 | |
8THE WILDERNESS TRAIL 106 | |
NOTES 277 | |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 278 | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 286 | |
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