The Winning of the West, Volume 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Tapa blanda - 2003

Bison Books (1995), Edition: First Bison Book Printing, 353 pages, 1995. Paperback. The Winning of the West, Volume 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt (1995)

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Paperback / softback. New. Describes the first settlers from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina moving out to the land between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. This book tells how Boone and the Long Hunters cut their way through the forests into Kentucky, John Sevier campaigned against the Cherokees, and families huddled in wilderness forts.

University of Nebraska Press, 1995-05-28. Presidential Ed. Paperback. Used:Good.

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New. After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He projected a sweeping drama, well documented and filled with Americans fighting Indian confederacies north and south while dealing with the machinations of the British, French, and Spanish and their sympathizers. Roosevelt wanted to show how backwoodsmen such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, followed by hardy pioneer settlers, gave the United States eventual claim to land west of the Alleghanies. Heroism and treachery among both the whites and the Indians can be seen in his rapidly shifting story of a people on the move. By force and by treaty the new nation was established in the East, and when the explorers and settlers pushed against the Mississippi, everything west of the river was considered part of that nation. This volume describes the first settlers from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North… Leer más

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