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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131284503321

Autore

Caruso John Anthony

Titolo

The Appalachian frontier [[electronic resource]] : America's first surge westward / / John Anthony Caruso; with a new introduction by John C. Inscoe; maps by Francis J. Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newfound Press, 2003

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Newfound Press, , 2003

Knoxville : , : University of Tennessee Press, , 2003

©2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 408 pages) : maps (black & white); digital fie(s)

Collana

Appalachian echoes

Disciplina

976.02

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Old Southwest

Old Southwest History

Appalachian Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1959.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / John C. Inscoe --1. Explorers in the Back Country --2. The immigrants --3. The French and Indian war --4. The long hunters in Kentucky --5. The regulators of North Carolina --6. The Wataugans --7. Lord Dunmore's war --8. The wilderness trail --9. Transylvania --10. Siege of Boonesboro --11. Pattern of life --12. King's Mountain --13. Settlements on the Cumberland --14. Franklin, the Lost State --15. Kentucky: struggle for statehood --16. Making of Tennessee --Notes --Selected bibliography --Acknowledgments --Index.