Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

by Constance Lindsay Skinner

Life In The Back Country

Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, from 1763 to 1783. Albany, 1876. An intimate description of the daily life of the early settlers in the Back Country by one of themselves.

J. F. D. Smyth, Tour in the United States of America, 2 vols. London, 1784. Minute descriptions of the Back Country and interesting pictures of the life of the settlers; biased as to political views by Royalist sympathies.

William H. Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, New York, 1846. See Foote also for history of the first Presbyterian ministers in the Back Country. As to political history, inaccurate.