Wilderness at Dawn The Settling of the North American Continent

by Morgan, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780671882372
• ISBN10: 0671882376
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-26
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

This captivating combination of history, research, and storytelling presents the collective biography of the ordinary people who tamed this rugged continent and formed our nation. 11 maps; illustrations. Featured at the National American History Conference.

Author Biography

Ted Morgan is a biographer, journalist, and historian

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
First Arrivals
The First Fifteen Thousand Years	p. 18
The Exploration Fever	p. 47
The Spanish Presence	p. 71
The French Frontier	p. 89
English Footholds
The Jamestown Frontier	p. 108
The Pilgrim Frontier	p. 133
The Dutch Frontier	p. 152
The Puritan Frontier	p. 165
Frontiers in Collision	p. 193
The English Advance and the French Retreat
The Manorial Frontier	p. 220
The Chesapeake Frontier	p. 237
The Black Frontier	p. 248
The Salzburger Frontier	p. 265
The Quaker Frontier	p. 276
The Hinterland in 1750	p. 297
The Frontier in 1750	p. 308
The French Departure	p. 331
America for the Americans
Stars to the Flag	p. 352
The Land Hunger	p. 393
The Ohio Company	p. 410
The Creeks Fight Back	p. 438
The Struggle for Statehood	p. 448
The Land Operation	p. 461
The Young Nation	p. 481
Acknowledgments	p. 495
Notes	p. 497
Index	p. 515
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