The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966 - 266 páginas "From 1602, when captain Bartholomew Gosnold dropped anchor off the coast of what would eventually become Maine, to 1763, when most of the pioneering was still confined to a narrow zone bounded on the west by the Appalachian Mountains, the slow painful process of settling some 3000 miles of North American wilderness took place. With insight, humor, and zest, here is the story of those first 150 years. The laborious process of settlement is described by Dr. Leach in a dramatic, fast-moving narrative that springs from the territory of the Algonquian and Iroquoian and unfolds along the rivers Merrimac, Kennebec, Hudson, Delaware, and Susquehanna. It is the exciting story of people who forged from the wilderness of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire--all the northeastern states down to New Jersey and Virginia. Stories of land-grabbing, interracial friction, European wars, religious imperialism, heroes and tyrants, are told here with the freshness and authority that are the marks of excellent history. In reconstructing an epic period in American history, Dr. Leach has produced a flesh and bone portrait of the American experience. His work has an astonishing relevance for the present that only historians of the first rank ever extract from the raw material of fact."--Dust jacket. |
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