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The conquest of the old Southwest

the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
Henderson, Archibald (1877-1963)
  
LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
  
THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST
  
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[dedication]
  
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INTRODUCTION
  
CONTENTS
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

 I. 
CHAPTER I
 II. 
CHAPTER II
 III. 
CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER IV
 V. 
CHAPTER V
 VI. 
CHAPTER VI
 VII. 
CHAPTER VII
 VIII. 
CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER X
 XI. 
CHAPTER XI
 XII. 
CHAPTER XII
 XIII. 
CHAPTER XIII
 XIV. 
CHAPTER XIV
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CHAPTER XV
 XVI. 
CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVII
 XVIII. 
CHAPTER XVIII
 XIX. 
CHAPTER XIX
 XX. 
CHAPTER XX

  
LIST OF NOTES
  
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  
INDEX
  
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Introduction  ix 
I  The Migration of the Peoples  3 
II  The Cradle of Westward Expansion  19 
III  The Back Country and the Border  32 
IV  The Indian War  49 
V  In Defense of Civilization  64 
VI  Crushing the Cherokees  78 
VII  The Land Companies  96 
VIII  The Long Hunters in the Twilight
Zone 		 116 
IX  Daniel Boone and Wilderness Exploration  130 
X  Daniel Boone in Kentucky  144 
XI  The Regulators  160 
XII  Watauga—Haven of Liberty  175 
XIII  Opening the Gateway—Dunmore's
War 		 196 
XIV  Richard Henderson and the Transylvania
Company 		 216 
XV  Transylvania—A Wilderness Commonwealth  237 
XVI  The Repulse of the Red Men  252 
XVII  The Colonization of the Cumberland  269 
XVIII  King's Mountain  289 
XIX  The State of Franklin  306 
XX  The Lure of Spain—The Haven of
Statehood 		 327 
List of Notes  351 
Bibliographical Notes  363 
Index  371 
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