Description
The Ohio Frontier
Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830
R. Douglas Hurt
This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830.
--Journal of the Early Republic
Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against an army that was incompetent at the beginning but highly trained and disciplined in the end.
Sales territory is worldwide
A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
1996; 440 pages, 23 b&w photos, 7 maps, bibl. essay, index, 6 x 9
cloth 0-253-33210-9 $39.95 L / 28.50
paper 0-253-21212-X $19.95 t / 14.50
Author: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 08/22/1998
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780253212122
ISBN10: 025321212X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
About the Author
R. Douglas Hurt is the editor of Agricultural History and Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State University. He has written and edited more than a dozen books.