The story of that Trans-Allegheny movement of the American pioneer in the quarter-century from 1769 to 1794. It embraces the area of the present United States from western Pennsylvania to the Mississippi, and from the Great Lakes southward into Tennessee. The story of this westward movement begins with the emigration of the Zane family from the South Branch of the Potomac River, from their home near Moorefield, in present Hardy County, West Virginia, to the mouth of Wheeling Creek in the panhandle of that state. It deals with four major disasters for the American colonists, balanced against one victory... "Mad" Anthony Wayne's victory over the confederated Indian tribes at Fallen Timbers. Soft cover, 6" x 9" format, 390 pages. Sparsely illustrated, includes Index and Bibliography.
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