PURCHASED WITH MEN’S BLOOD AND WOMEN’S TEARS… 1778. The untamed Ohio frontier. A land whose riches could only be purchased with courage and with blood. Marah was one of the brave. She had struggled for months to reach the wild territory, ...
Dale Van Every describes the perilous crises that threatened the young republic during the period when she struggled to remain one nation instead of becoming many. In this third volume of his major work, The Frontier People of America, the renowned h...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
One final push for the American people…In this fourth and final volume of his monumental history of the frontier people of America, Dale Van Every describes the final push westward to the Pacific in a way that makes history come to life. The story ...
The story of how pioneers penetrated the Appalachian Mountains into the Mississippi River Valley.The first American frontier along the Appalachian barrier was a drama: terrible to be part of, magnificent to look back on. Its components were full meas...