IX.—THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT KANAWHA; AND LOGAN'S SPEECH, 1774
X.—BOON AND THE SETTLEMENT OF KENTUCKY, 1775
XI.—IN THE CURRENT OF THE REVOLUTION—THE SOUTHERN BACKWOODSMEN OVERWHELM THE CHEROKEES, 1776
XII.—GROWTH AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY, 1776
APPENDICES: APPENDIX A—TO CHAPTER IV. APPENDIX B—TO CHAPTER V. APPENDIX C—TO CHAPTER VI. APPENDIX D—TO CHAPTER VI. APPENDIX E—TO CHAPTER VII. APPENDIX F—TO CHAPTER IX.
[Illustration: Map. The West during the Revolution. Showing Hamilton's route from Detroit to Vincennes; Clark's route from Redstone to the Illinois, and thence to Vincennes; Boon's trail, on the Wilderness Road to Kentucky; Robertson's trail to the settlement he founded on the Cumberland; the water route from the Watauga to Nashboro, that taken by the Adventure; the march of the backwoodsmen from the Sycamore Shoals to King's Mountain. The flags denote the battles of the Great Kanawha, the Blue Licks, the Island Flats of the Holston, and King's Mountain; and the assaults on Boonsboro and Vincennes. Based on a map by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.]
THE WINNING OF THE WEST.
CHAPTER I.
THE SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES.
During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking feature in the world's history, but also the event of all others most far-reaching in its effects and its importance.