The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

CONTENTS

	Introduction
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

THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST

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