Excerpt from The Ohio Country: Between the Years 1783 and 1815; Including Military Operations That Twice Saved to the United States the Country West of the Alleghany Mountains After the Revolutionary War

The early and most trying times in the history of the Old Northwestern Territory, and of its great neighbor, the Southwestern Territory, divided only in a physical sense by the Ohio River, is a subject that should ever be of interest, and of value to everyone, of every land, especially as a study in patriotic endurance.

The story presents people strong in brain and in brawn, descendants of Anglo-Saxon and of Celtic stocks, the ancestors of most of whom had been several generations in America, having originally settled here one hundred and fifty years before; a people who loved their new homes in the forest country as well as the homes of their nativity in the Colonies along the Atlantic shore, now separated from their early habitat by several hundred miles, and by mountains hard to traverse.

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