Item #49 THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST. The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 1740-1790. Archibald Henderson.
THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST. The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 1740-1790

THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST. The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 1740-1790

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Orig. pub. New York 1920. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2010. xxiv, 395 pp. + illus., maps, index. Item #49
ISBN: 9780871521583

This is the story of the pioneers in the region of the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky during the second half of the eighteenth century. Topics covered are: the migration of the settlers into North Carolina; the cradle of westward expansion; the back country and the border; the Indian wars; the land companies; Daniel Boone in Kentucky; the regulators; the Watauga settlement in Tennessee; Dunsmore's War; Transylvania; the colonization of the Cumberland; King's Mountain; the state of Franklin; and statehood. A useful bibliographical note is included.

Price: $50.00