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THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST: THE ROMANTIC
STORY OF THE EARLY PIONEERS INTO VIRGINIA, THE
CAROLINAS, TENNESSEE, AND KENTUCKY 1740-1790
BY ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Ph.D., D.C.L.
Some to endure and many to fail, Some to conquer and many to quail
Toiling over the Wilderness Trail.
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1920
TO THE HISTORIAN OF OLD WEST AND NEW WEST
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER WITH ADMIRATION AND
REGARD
The country might invite a prince from his palace, merely for the
pleasure of contemplating its beauty and excellence; but only add the
rapturous idea of property, and what allurements can the world offer for
the loss of so glorious a prospect?--Richard Henderson.
The established Authority of any government in America, and the
policy of Government at home, are both insufficient to restrain the
Americans . . . . They acquire no attachment to Place: But wandering
about Seems engrafted in their Nature; and it is a weakness incident to
it, that they Should for ever imagine the Lands further off, are Still
better than those upon which they are already settled.--Lord Dunmore,
to the Earl of Dartmouth.
INTRODUCTION
The romantic and thrilling story of the southward and westward
migration of successive waves of transplanted European peoples
throughout the entire course of the eighteenth century is the history of
the growth and evolution of American democracy. Upon the American
continent was wrought out, through almost superhuman daring,
incredible hardship, and surpassing endurance, the formation of a new
society. The European rudely confronted with the pitiless conditions of
the wilderness soon discovered that his maintenance, indeed his
existence, was conditioned upon his individual efficiency and his
resourcefulness in adapting himself to his environment. The very
history of the human race, from the age of primitive man to the modern
era of enlightened civilization, is traversed in the Old Southwest

throughout the course of half a century.
A series of dissolving views thrown upon the screen, picturing the
successive episodes in the history of a single family as it wended its
way southward along the eastern valleys, resolutely repulsed the
sudden attack of the Indians, toiled painfully up the granite slopes of
the Appalachians, and pitched down into the transmontane wilderness
upon the western waters, would give to the spectator a vivid conception,
in miniature, of the westward movement. But certain basic elements in
the grand procession, revealed to the sociologist and the economist,
would perhaps escape his scrutiny. Back of the individual, back of the
family, even, lurk the creative and formative impulses of colonization,
expansion, and government. In the recognition of these social and
economic tendencies the individual merges into the group; the group
into the community; the community into a new society. In this clear
perspective of