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035 $a(OCoLC)33442047
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050 00 $aF495$b.O353 1996
082 00 $a977.1$220
245 04 $aThe Ohio frontier :$ban anthology of early writings /$cEmily Foster, editor.
260 $aLexington :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 229 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Ohio River Valley series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index.
520 $aFew mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology - the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others - are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization - and what the people thought and did who saw them coming.
520 8 $aEach succeeding group of new-comers - hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants - established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it.
520 8 $aThe new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe left in 1843, the Indians were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience was finished.
651 0 $aOhio$xHistory$yTo 1787$vSources.
651 0 $aOhio$xHistory$y1787-1865$vSources.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zOhio$vSources.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zOhio$xHistory$vSources.
700 1 $aFoster, Emily,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95104840
830 0 $aOhio River Valley series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93118130
852 00 $bglx$hF495$i.O353 1996