**An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River
Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their
land against the seemingly unstoppable.
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They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and
by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a
foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists,
settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from
justice and from despair--pioneers all, in the great and inexorable
westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio
River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of
resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the
birth and growth of a nation.
Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal--including
letters, diaries, and journals of the era--Allan W. Eckert has delivered
a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and
detail.