The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early WritingsUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1996 - 229 páginas Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology - the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others - are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization - and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of new-comers - hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants - established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe left in 1843, the Indians were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience was finished. |
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... stopped . " After having delivered their speech , they gave the belt of wam- pum , and desired us to take down in writing what they had said , that we might not forget any part of it ; for that it was a matter about which they were much ...
... stopped . " After having delivered their speech , they gave the belt of wam- pum , and desired us to take down in writing what they had said , that we might not forget any part of it ; for that it was a matter about which they were much ...
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... stopped . There was only one road leading from Beaver to the Reserve , and that almost impassable . I was directed to take a blazed path which led to the Mahoning river , a mile or two east of Poland . When I came to the river the water ...
... stopped . There was only one road leading from Beaver to the Reserve , and that almost impassable . I was directed to take a blazed path which led to the Mahoning river , a mile or two east of Poland . When I came to the river the water ...
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... stopped at Gnadenhutten , a small town , consisting of 3 or 4 houses , a post - office , tavern , and store . The people are mostly Ger- mans from Bedford , Pennsylvania , and appear to be very poor . This is also an Indian reservation ...
... stopped at Gnadenhutten , a small town , consisting of 3 or 4 houses , a post - office , tavern , and store . The people are mostly Ger- mans from Bedford , Pennsylvania , and appear to be very poor . This is also an Indian reservation ...
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Europeans Discover Ohio 17501782 | 9 |
Captain William Trents Journal | 15 |
Charles Beattys Missionary | 27 |
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