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The Old Northwest, A Chronicle Of The Ohio Valley And Beyond
By Frederic Austin Ogg
New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.91
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY II. "A LAIR OF WILD BEASTS" III.
THE REVOLUTION BEGINS IV. THE CONQUEST COMPLETED
V. WAYNE, THE SCOURGE OF THE INDIANS VI. THE GREAT
MIGRATION VII. PIONEER DAYS AND WAYS VIII. TECUMSEH
IX. THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE NEW WEST X. SECTIONAL
CROSS CURRENTS XI. THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The Old Northwest


Chapter I
. Pontiac's Conspiracy
The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the

city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and
colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to
America and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were
signed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, Canada
and all its dependencies westward to the Mississippi passed to the
British Crown. Virtually ended was the long struggle for the dominion
of the New World. Open now for English occupation and settlement
was that vast country lying south of the Great Lakes between the Ohio
and the Mississippi--which we know as the Old Northwest--today the
seat of five great commonwealths of the United States.
With an ingenuity born of necessity, the French pathfinders and
colonizers of the Old Northwest had chosen for their settlements sites
which would serve at once the purposes of