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First settled by non-Native Americans in 1732, what is the history of the Shenandoah Valley?
In 1833, the Samuel Kercheval (1767-1845), the first major historian of the Shenandoah Valley, published "A History of the Valley of Virginia."
Topics covered by Kercheval include Indian wars, Indian settlements, first settlement of the valley, customs of the settlers, attacks on settlers, Dunmore's war with the Indians, War of the Revolution, life of settlers,...
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Known to history as "Dunmore's War," the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty's service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap, Adam Stephen, and Andrew Lewis successfully enforced the...
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2021.
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The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles.
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Borderland Books
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1965
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A listing of soldiers who served in two expeditions lead by General George Rogers Clark and Colonel Benjamin Logan against the Wabash and Shawnee Indians in September 1786. Also includes soldiers who served in the "Paint Lick Expedition", the "Southern Expedition", and "on the frontiers."