The Winning of the West Volume I: from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776 (Paperback)

This volume describes the tribulations of the settlers who opened up the first trails westward from the original thirteen colonies. No punches are pulled in describing the intense racial conflict and the cruel warfare which followed: "The Creeks owed the land which they possessed to murder and rapine; they mercilessly destroyed all weaker communities, red or white ...All men knew that the prisoners who fell into Indian hands, of whatever age or sex, often suffered a fate hideous and revolting beyond belief and beyond description. It was inevitable-indeed it was in many instances proper-that such deeds should awake in the breasts of the whites the grimmest, wildest spirit of revenge and hatred ...Unless we were willing that the whole continent west of the Alleghanies should remain an unpeopled waste, the hunting-ground of savages, war was inevitable...for then the Indians themselves would have encroached on our [land]s." Completely reset. Contains none of the facsimile errors which mar other copies.