The Old Northwest

Author : Alec R. Gilpin
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609173197

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The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by Alec R. Gilpin Pdf

This engaging narrative history deftly illustrates the War of 1812 as it played out in the Old Northwest — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and bordering parts of Canada. From the stirrings of conflict in the area beginning as early as the 1760s, through the Battle of Tippecanoe, and to Michigan Territory’s role as a focal point in prewar preparation, the book examines the lead-up to the war before delving into key battles in the region. In this accessible text, Gilpin explores key figures, dates, and wartime developments, shedding considerable light on the strategic and logistical issues raised by the region’s unique geography, culture, economy, and political temperament. Battles covered include the Surrender of Detroit, the Siege of Fort Meigs, and the battles of River Raisin, Lake Erie, the Thames, and Mackinac Island.

Author : David Curtis Skaggs
Publisher : Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4437450

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The Old Northwest in the American Revolution by David Curtis Skaggs Pdf

Author : Burke Aaron Hinsdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Northwest, Old
ISBN : UCAL:$B301972

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The Old Northwest by Burke Aaron Hinsdale Pdf

Author : Daniel P. Barr
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0873388445

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The Boundaries Between Us by Daniel P. Barr Pdf

Although much has been written about the Old Northwest, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining the interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples and their struggles to gain control of the region and its vast resources. Comprised of twelve original essays, The Boundaries between Us formulates a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of the contest for control of the Old Northwest. The essays examine the socio cultural contexts in which natives and newcomers lived, tradod, negotiated, interacted, and fought, delineating the articulations of power and possibility, difference and identity, violence and war that shaped the struggle. The essays do not attempt to present a unified interpretation but, rather, focus on both specific and general topics, revisit and reinterpret well-known events, and underscore how cultural, political, and ideological antagonisms divided the native inhabitants from the newcomers. Together, these thoughtful analyses offer a broad historical perspective on nearly a century of contact, interaction, conflict, and displacement. the history of early America, the frontier, and cultural interaction.

Author : Kristopher Maulden
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274397

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The Federalist Frontier by Kristopher Maulden Pdf

The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the nation’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s. Relying on government records, private correspondence, and newspapers, Kristopher Maulden argues that Federalists originated many of the policies and institutions that helped the young United States government take a leading role in the American people’s expansion and settlement westward across the Appalachians. It was primarily they who placed the U.S. Army at the fore of the white westward movement, created and executed the institutions to survey and sell public lands, and advocated for transportation projects to aid commerce and further migration into the region. Ultimately, the relationship between government and settlers evolved as citizens raised their expectations of what the federal government should provide, and the region embraced transportation infrastructure and innovation in public education. Historians of early American politics will have a chance to read about Federalists in the Northwest, and they will see the early American state in action in fighting Indians, shaping settler understandings of space and social advancement, and influencing political ideals among the citizens. For historians of the early American West, Maulden’s work demonstrates that the origins of state-led expansion reach much further back in time than generally understood.

Author : Wiley Sword
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0806124881

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President Washington's Indian War by Wiley Sword Pdf

Military history buffs and scholars will revel in Wiley Sword's exciting narrative, the first comprehensive history of the United States-Indian war of 1790-1795. The struggle for the Old Northwest Territory (modern-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan) was as vicious and bitter a conflict as any war in our history. Indeed, the very survival of the new nation was in doubt. The years from 1790 to 1795 may have been the turning point in Indian white relations on the North American continent. At this time the Indians of the Ohio country-tribes such as the Miamis, the Shawnees, and the Ottawas-engaged in a last-ditch effort to stop the settlers who were moving west into the "Black Forest" wilderness of mid America. They were aided by British agents, based in Detroit, who manipulated the Indian confederacy in an attempt to recoup some of their losses from the Revolutionary War. Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Clair led early disastrous campaigns, including possibly the worst defeat of a United States army at the hands of Indians. Ultimately, President George Washington assigned "Mad Anthony" Wayne to rebuild and expand the army, despite considerable domestic opposition. This is the most detailed history yet published of the battles and skirmishes, the futile treaty negotiations with the Indians, and the tribes' intrigues among themselves and with the British, leading to Wayne's final victory 'over the Indian confederacy at Fallen Timbers. Most impressive is the extent and depth of the author's research in primary and secondary sources. With extraordinary vividness Sword recounts the battles and the life in the American and Indian encampments, quoting from diaries, letters, and statements by American officers and soldiers as well as the accounts of their enemies, such as Little Turtle of the Miamis, Blue Jacket of the Shawnees, and Joseph Brant of the Iroquois. Nor does Sword neglect the activities and life-ways of Britain's traders, agents, and haughty commandants.

Author : Frederic Austin Ogg
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547067573

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The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond by Frederic Austin Ogg Pdf

"The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond" by Frederic Austin Ogg is one volume in a series of books that aimed to discuss and describe the United States of America. Though there are many books on this topic, non manage to be quite as atmospheric and gripping as Ogg, making his a worthy addition to any library.

Author : Stacey M. Robertson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899488

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Hearts Beating for Liberty by Stacey M. Robertson Pdf

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus through their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities. They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supported a Quaker-led boycott of slave goods, and tirelessly aided fugitives and free blacks in their communities. Western women worked closely with male abolitionists, belying the notion of separate spheres that characterized abolitionism in the East. The contested history of race relations in the West also affected the development of abolitionism in the region, necessitating a pragmatic bent in their activities. Female antislavery societies focused on eliminating racist laws, aiding fugitive slaves, and building and sustaining schools for blacks. This approach required that abolitionists of all stripes work together, and women proved especially adept at such cooperation.

Author : Roscoe Carlyle Buley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : PSU:000025614008

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The Old Northwest by Roscoe Carlyle Buley Pdf

Author : William Heath
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806151472

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest by William Heath Pdf

Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory. Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Tenskwatawa’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the decline of coexistence and cooperation between two cultures.

Author : Bethel Saler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812246636

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The Settlers' Empire by Bethel Saler Pdf

The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference. In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and European immigrants. In this way, The Settlers' Empire speaks to historians of women, gender, and culture, as well as to those interested in the early national state, the early West, settler colonialism, and Native history.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Cincinnati : American Book Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Northwest, Old
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049342327

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The Conquest of the Old Northwest and Its Settlement by Americans by James Baldwin Pdf

Author : Alan D. Gaff
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135859

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Bayonets in the Wilderness by Alan D. Gaff Pdf

"In this military history, Gaff documents the British and French influence, the famed battle at Fallen Timbers, and the Treaty of Greeneville, which ended hostilities in the region. His account brings to light alliances between Indian forces and the British military, demonstrating that British troops still conducted operations on American soil long after the supposed end of the American Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher : Lincoln : University Nebraska Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000609091

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The Old Northwest by Harry N. Scheiber Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013866218

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Pathways to the Old Northwest by Anonim Pdf

In 1987 Franklin College of Indiana hosted an observance of the bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance. Professional and amateur historians, folklorists, scholars in the arts, teachers, and students gathered to examine the provisions of that historic document and the governmental structure it created for the frontier lands north of the Ohio River. Pathways to the Old Northwest: An Observance of the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance presents six of the lectures delivered at the conference. These lectures represent current knowledge about the early history of the Ohio River-Great Lakes area, the circumstances surrounding passage of the Ordinance, the beginnings of government and society, and the ethnic diversity of the region's people.