Westward Expansion: A History of the American FrontierMacmillan, 1949 - 873 pages |
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... reached the shores of Lake Michigan in 1652. " They came like foxes , " wrote a weary French chronicler , " attacked like lions , and fled like birds . " Algonquin from northern Michigan , Sauk from the Saginaw Valley , Potawatomi ...
... reached the shores of Lake Michigan in 1652. " They came like foxes , " wrote a weary French chronicler , " attacked like lions , and fled like birds . " Algonquin from northern Michigan , Sauk from the Saginaw Valley , Potawatomi ...
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... reached Newark on the Ohio . Canal . This construction , which threatened to make Sandusky the state's most important Lake Erie port , stirred Cleveland businessmen into action . Their ambition was an all - rail route to Cincinnati ...
... reached Newark on the Ohio . Canal . This construction , which threatened to make Sandusky the state's most important Lake Erie port , stirred Cleveland businessmen into action . Their ambition was an all - rail route to Cincinnati ...
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... reached the upper Conchos River and began to advance down that stream toward the Rio Grande . The most important gain was made in 1659 when a leading Franciscan , Fray García de San Francisco , led two companions overland to the Rio ...
... reached the upper Conchos River and began to advance down that stream toward the Rio Grande . The most important gain was made in 1659 when a leading Franciscan , Fray García de San Francisco , led two companions overland to the Rio ...
Contents
SECTION I | 13 |
Europes First Frontier 14921615 | 15 |
The Spanish in Eastern North America 15131590 | 19 |
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