The Winning of the West, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 328 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 3.

The Winning of the West, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 328 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 3.
      formulates new departure in colonial system. 
    Outlaw, backwoods colonel, kills friendly Cherokees. 
    Patterson, Robert, Colonel, good conduct of. 
    Patton, skirmish with Indians. 
    Pickens, Andrew, and his fellow-justices of Abbeville, S. C.,
       denounce Franklin men for murder of Cherokees. 
    Pioneers, changes among;
      succession of types among;
      characteristics of different types. 
    Presbyterian ministers. 
    Putnam, Rufus, one of founders of Ohio. 
    Robertson, James, attacks Indians at Coldwater;
      writes to Illinois about the slain French traders;
      and to Delaware;
      writes to McGillivray about separation of Southwest from Union;
      lack of national feeling;
      correspondence about Indians with Miro and Gardoqui;
      attends North Carolina Legislature;
      son and brother killed by Indians;
      letter to McGillivray;
      to Martin;
      encourages immigration to Cumberland;
      wounded by Indians;
      commands militia;
      brigadier-general. 
    Scott, Charles, a Kentucky Indian fighter. 
    Scott, settler, family butchered by Indians. 
    Sebastian, Judge, in pay of Spaniards;
      ally of Wilkinson;
      conspires to dismember the Union;
      corrupt. 
    Sectional intolerance. 
    Separatist spirit, strength of, at different times in
        different sections;
      leaders of;
      similarity to Spanish-American revolutionists;
      their evil influence;
      partial justification of separatist movement by narrowness of
        eastern people;
      especially of New Englanders;
      examples of this narrowness;
      excuses for certain;
      separatist leaders;
      separatist feeling in Kentucky;
      anger of Virginians over;
      separatist feeling in West;
      separatist movement in West Virginia;
      in Kentucky;
      failure of movement. 
    Settlers, character of;
      occupation of. 
    Sevier, James, goes to Gardoqui. 
    Sevier, John, president of Jonesboro Convention;
      Governor of Franklin;
      correspondence with Gov.  Martin;
      and Patrick Henry;
      issues manifesto;
      rivalry with Tipton;
      brawls with Tipton;
      asks help of Evan Shelby;
      friendly relations with Georgia;
      member of Cincinnati;
      he and his men compared with bygone colonizers;
      leads forays against Indians;
      corresponds with Benj.  Franklin;
      with Shelby;
      end of term as governor;
      in dire straits;
      fight with Tipton’s men;
      further forays against Indians;
      fails to protect Indian prisoners;
      reprobated for his failure;
      abandoned for moment by frontiersmen;
      arrest ordered by Governor of North Carolina;
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