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Anderson, Fred. 2000. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Knopf. 960 pp.
Aron, Stephen. 1996. How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 285 pp.
Aron, Stephen. 1998. “Pigs and Hunters: ‘Rights in the Woods’ on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier” [Ohio Valley Indians and pioneers]. In Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830, eds. A. Cayton, R. Teute, 175-204. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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Aronow, Louisa. 2006. “Finding Maryland’s First Friends: Mom’s Looking Up Dead People Again” [researching Friend family genealogy, Friendsville, Md., from 1750]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 1 (Spring): 40-42.
Axelrod, Alan. 2007. Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle That Shaped the Man. Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press. 270 pp. War for the Ohio Country; Fort Necessity (Pa.), 1754.
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Barksdale, Kevin T. 2007. “The Spanish Conspiracy on the Trans-Appalachian Borderlands, 1786-1789” [to unite Tennessee Valley settlements with the Louisiana Territory]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 13, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 96-123.
Barnes, L. Diane. 1997. “Booster Ethos: Community, Image, and Profit in Early Clarksburg” [19th century; Harrison Co.]. West Virginia History 56: 27-42.
Barnes, L. Diane. 2001. “Building Communities Out of Frontiers: The Grist Mills of Harrison County, West Virginia, 1784-1860.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Fall): 285-299.
Bartlett, Richard A. 2006. “Frontier Heritage.” In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 3: History, ed. C. Wilson, 99-106. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Batson, Mann. 1995. Early Travel and Accommodations Along the Roads of the Upper Part of Greenville County, South Carolina and Surrounding Areas. Self-published, 203 Love Dr., Travelers Rest, S.C. 29690. 192 pp.
Beeman, Richard R. 2004. “The Unsettling Political Cultures of the Backcountry: The Southern Backcountry” [Va. and the Carolinas]. Chap. 6 in The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America, 157-182. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Belue, Ted Franklin, ed. 1997. A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone: A Memoir by Peter Houston [written in 1842]. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 96 pp.
Belue, Ted Franklin. 1996. The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi [historical accounts; pre-1830]. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 237 pp.
Belue, Ted Franklin. 2003. The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 315 pp.
Bergmann, William H. 2008. “Delivering a Nation through the Mail: The Post Office in the Ohio Valley, 1789-1815.” Ohio Valley History 8, no. 3 (Fall): 1-18. Roads, political economy and westward expansion.
Bergmann, William H. 2008. “A ‘Commercial View of this Unfortunate War’: Economic Roots of an American National State in the Ohio Valley, 1775-1795” [Ky.]. Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1: 137-164. Military presence quells Indian attacks.
Blair, Anthony L. 2008. “Schism on the Susquehanna: Community and Congregational Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier during the Era of the Great Awakening.” Pennsylvania History 75, no. 1 (Winter): 1-25. Dauphin County; Presbyterians.
Blessing, Tim H. 1998. “The Upper Juniata Valley” [south-central Pa.]. In Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland, eds. J. Frantz, W. Pencak, 153-170. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Blethen, H. Tyler, and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. 1997. “Scotch-Irish Frontier Society in Southwestern North Carolina, 1780-1840.” In Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish, ed. H. Blethen, C. Wood, Jr., 213-226. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Blethen, H. Tyler. 1994. “The Transmission of Scottish Culture to the Southern Back Country.” In Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World, ed. Norma Myers. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6: 59-72. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.
Blethen, H. Tyler. 2004. “Pioneer Settlement.” In High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place, eds. R. Straw and H. Blethen, 17-29. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Boone, Nathan. 1999. My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone [1851]. Edited by Neal O. Hammon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 176 pp.
Brown, William Dodd. 1999. “Dangerous Situation, Delayed Response: Col. John Bowman and the Kentucky Expedition of 1777" [Boonesborough]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 97 (Spring): 137-158.
Bruckner, Martin. 2005. “Mapping the ‘American South’: Image, Archive, and the Textual Construction of Regional Identity in the Age of Washington” [Appalachian Mountains as western border]. Chap. 2 in George Washington’s South, eds. T. Harvey and G. O’Brien, 42-68. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Buchanan, John. 2001. Jackson’s Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters [military history; Tenn. frontier; Indian resettlement]. New York: Wiley. 434 pp.
Burns, David M. 2000. Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky [1750s exploration; Cumberland Gap; 90 illustrations]. Introduction by Thomas D. Clark. Middlesboro, Ky.: Bell County Historical Society. 100 pp.
Caldwell, John. 1997. “The Creation of Allegheny County” [Pa.; 1788; from division of Washington and Westmoreland Cos.]. Pittsburgh History 80 (Spring): 26-31.
Calloway, Brenda C. 2002. Trek of the Ancient Spirits: Early History of Bays Mountain [Tenn.; natural history, Native Americans; frontier life]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press. 118 pp.
Calloway, Colin G. 2006. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. Pivotal Moments in American History. New York: Oxford University Press. 219 pp.
Caruso, John Anthony. 2003 [1959]. The Appalachian Frontier: America’s First Surge Westward. Reprint, with an introduction by John C. Inscoe. Appalachian Echoes. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 408 pp. Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Cashin, Edward J. 2000. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier [elucidates Quaker/naturalist Bartram’s 18th-century travel writings]. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 319 pp.
Cashin, Edward. 1998. “From Creeks to Crackers” [Ga]. In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds. D. Crass, et al., 69-75. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Cayton, Andrew R. L. 2005. “The Significance of Ohio in the Early American Republic.” Introduction to The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic, eds. A. Cayton and S. Hobbs, 1-9. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Clark, Thomas D. 2005 [1957]. “The Common-Man Tradition in the Literature of the Frontier” [reprinted from the Michigan Alumnus Review]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 103, nos.1-2: 125-142.
Clark, Thomas D., and John D. W. Guice. 1996 [1989]. The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict. Foreword by Howard R. Lamar. Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma. 335 pp.
Clayton, LaReine Warden. 1995. Stories of Early Inns and Taverns of the East Tennessee Country [endpapers map: “Routes of Migration in the Old East Tennessee Country, 1760-1860”]. Edited by Jane Gray Buchanan. Foreword by Wilma Dykeman. Nashville: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Tennessee. 178 pp.
Clements, Paul. 2005. “Tennessee Notes: An Analysis of ‘The Original’ Donelson Journal and Associated Accounts of the Donelson Party Voyage” [1779-1780; Col. John Donelson; Cumberland River to Nashville]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 64, no. 4 (Winter): 338-349.
Crass, David Colin, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks. 1998. “Introduction: Southern Frontier Communities Viewed Through the Archaeological Eye.” In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds. D. Crass, et al., xiii-xxvii. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Crass, David Colin, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks, eds. 1998. The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities [Va., N.C., S.C., Tenn.]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 288 pp.
Crawford, B. Scott. 2008. “A Frontier of Fear: Terrorism and Social Tension along Virginia’s Western Waters, 1742–1775.” West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, new series, 2, no. 2 (Fall): 1-29. Shawnee, Cherokee; Shenandoah Valley, Ohio Valley.
Crist, Robert G. 1998. “Cumberland County” [comprised western Pa., 1750-1771]. In Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland, eds. J. Frantz, W. Pencak, 105-132. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Cumming, William P. 1998. The Southeast in Early Maps. 3rd ed., revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 362 pp; 96 maps.
Davis, Donald Edward. 1995. “Before Albion's Seed: Other Influences on Appalachian Culture.” In Appalachia and the Politics of Culture, ed. E. C. Fine. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 7: 57-66. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.
De Vorsey, Louis, Jr. 2001. “Searching for William Bartram’s Buffalo Lick” [a key frontier landmarker on the 1773 Georgia-Indian Boundary Line, mentioned in Bartram’s 18th-century Travels]. Southeastern Geographer 41 (November): 159-183.
Denaci, Ruth Ann. 2007. “The Penn’s Creek Massacre and the Captivity of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger” [1755-1759; primary sources]. Pennsylvania History 74, no. 3 (Summer): 307-332.
Dixon, David. 2005. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America [1763]. Campaigns and Commanders, vol. 7. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 353 pp.
Dixon, David. 2007. “A High Wind Rising: George Washington, Fort Necessity, and the Ohio Country Indians” [Seneca leader Tanaghrisson; 1748, 1753]. Pennsylvania History 74, no. 3 (Summer): 333-353.
Dowd, Gregory Evans. 1998. “‘Insidious Friends’: Gift Giving and the Cherokee-British Alliance in the Seven Years’ War.” In Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830, eds. A. Cayton, R. Teute, 114-150. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Dunaway, Wilma A. 1995. “Speculators and Settler Capitalists: Unthinking the Mythology About Appalachian Landholding, 1790-1860.” In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 50-75. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Dunaway, Wilma A. 1996. The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 [revisionist study of settlement and Indian displacement; Weatherford Award winner]. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 468 pp.
Dunaway, Wilma A. 1998. “The Spatial Organization of Trade and Class Struggle over Transport Infrastructure: Southern Appalachia, 1830-1860.” In Space and Transport in the World System, eds. P. Ciccantell, S. Bunker, 107-124. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, no. 191. Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Duncan, Richard R. 1998. Lee’s Endangered Left: The Civil War in Western Virginia, Spring of 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 346 pp.
Dunn, Durwood. 1997. An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South: Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 306 pp.
Dunn, Walter S. 2007. Choosing Sides on the Frontier in the American Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 185 pp. Contents: Land -- The fur traders -- The settlers -- The Native Americans -- The Loyalists -- The British Army -- The Quebec Act, 1774 -- Dunmore’s War, 1774 -- Neutrality, 1775 -- Choosing sides, 1776.
Durham, Walter T. 1994. "Westward with Anthony Bledsoe: The Life of an Overmountain Frontier Leader." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 53 (Spring): 2-19.
Eckert, Allan W. 1995. That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley. New York: Bantam Books.
Eckert, Allan W. 2001 [1967]. The Frontiersmen: A Narrative [Ohio River Valley, 1770-1813; Simon Kenton; Tecumsuh]. Reprint. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 626 pp. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown.
Eldridge, Carrie. 1998. An Atlas of Appalachian Trails to the Ohio River: A Collection of Maps with Bibliography. Chesapeake, Ohio: C. Eldridge. 40 pp. (Huntington, W.Va.: CDM Printing). Available from Carrie Eldridge, 3118 CR 31 Big Branch, Chesapeake, Ohio 45619.
Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. 1999 [1984]. Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918. Reprint. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 304 pp.
Enoch, Harry G. 1997. In Search of Morgan’s Station and ‘The Last Indian Raid in Kentucky’ [1793]. Mt. Sterling, Ky.: Montgomery County Historical Society. 208 pp.
Eslinger, Ellen, ed. 2004. Running Mad for Kentucky: Frontier Travel Accounts [13 travel diaries, 1775-1796; Wilderness Road; Ohio River]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 288 pp.
Faris, John Thomson. 1999 [1927]. Nolichucky Jack [fictional biography of John Sevier, 1745-1815]. Johnson City, Tenn: Overmountain Press. 288 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
Faulkner, Charles H. 1998. “‘Here Are Frame Houses and Brick Chimneys’: Knoxville, Tennessee, in the Late Eighteenth Century.” In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds. D. Crass, et al., 137-161. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Fausz, J. Frederick. 1998. “‘Engaged in Enterprises Pregnant with Terror’: George Washington’s Formative Years among the Indians.” In George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry, ed. W. Hofstra, 115-155. Madison, Wis.: Madison House Publishers.
Finger, John R. 2001. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition [to 1840]. History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 352 pp.
First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants. 2000. Foreword by Wilma Dykeman; preface by Lamar Alexander. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society. 479 pp.
Fischer, David Hackett, and James C. Kelly. 2000. Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement [migration]. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 366 pp.
Fitzpatrick, Alan. 2005. Wilderness War on the Ohio: The Untold Story of the Savage Battle for British and Indian Control of the Ohio Country During the American Revolution. 2nd ed. Benwood, W.Va. (Box 481C Benwood Hill Rd., Benwood, WV 26031): Fort Henry Publications. 628 pp.
Flannery, Michael A. 1994. "The Significance of the Frontier Thesis in Kentucky Culture: A Study in Historical Practice and Perception." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 92 (Summer): 239-266.
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Foster, Dave. 2002. Tennessee: Territory to Statehood [juvenile literature]. Johnson City, Tenn: Overmountain Press. 89 pp.
Foster, Emily, ed. 1996. The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings. Ohio River Valley Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 248 pp.
Frazier, Paul. 2001. “Mining for Victory: Daniel Roberdeau’s Lead Mine and Fort” [1778-1783; Altoona, Pa.]. Western Pennsylvania History 84 (Summer): 12-19.
Friend, Craig Thompson, ed. 1999. The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land [11 essays]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 268 pp.
Friend, Craig Thompson. 1996. "'Fond Illusions' and Environmental Transformations Along the Maysville-Lexington Road." [1770-1810 in-migration] Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Winter): 4-32.
Friend, Craig Thompson. 2005. Along the Maysville Road: The Early Republic in the TransAppalachian West [key migratory route 1770s-1830s; 65 miles from Ohio River to Lexington, Ky.]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 378 pp.
Fulgham, Richard Lee. 2000. Appalachian Genesis: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era [historic Indian-settler clashes]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press. 156 pp.
Furbee, Mary R. 2001. Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles [Va.; 1732-1815; juvenile literature]. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds. 112 pp.
Furbee, Mary R. 2001. Anne Bailey: Frontier Scout [1742-1825; W.Va.; juvenile literature]. Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds. 112 pp.
Gaff, Alan D. 2004. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest [1790s Ohio River Valley]. Campaigns and Commanders, vol. 4. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 419 pp.
Garbarino, William. 2000. Along the Allegheny: A History of the Early Events Along the Allegheny and Its Tributaries. Midway, Pa.: Midway Publishing. 84 pp.
Garbarino, William. 2000. Along the Monongahela: A History of the Early Events Along the Monongahela and Its Tributaries. Midway, Pa.: Midway Publishing. 97 pp.
Garbarino, William. 2001. Indian Wars Along the Upper Ohio: A History of the Indian Wars and Related Events Along the Upper Ohio and Its Tributaries. Midway, Pa.: Midway Publishing. 127 pp.
Garbarino, William. 2005 [2000]. Along the Allegheny: A History of the Early Events Along the Allegheny and Its Tributaries [Western Pa.; Indian wars; forts; early navigation]. Midway, Pa.: Midway Publishing. 84 pp.
Gavin, Michael Thomas. 2002. “Log Cabin Folklore: Chinking and Daubing Tales” [anecdotes of frontier survival]. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 60, no. 2: 69-81.
Griffin, Patrick. 2007. American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier [Ohio Valley, 1763-1795; lawless settlers and Indian slayers]. New York: Hill and Wang. 368 pp.
Gruenwald, Kim M. 1996. "Marietta's Example of a Settlement Pattern in the Ohio Country." Ohio History 105 (Summer-Autumn): 125-144.
Gruenwald, Kim M. 2002. River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850. Midwestern History and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 214 pp.
Gruenwald, Kim M. 2004. “Space and Place on the Early American Frontier: The Ohio Valley as a Region, 1790-1850.” Ohio Valley History 4 (Fall): 31-48.
Hallock, Thomas. 2003. “The Contested West: John Filson’s Kentucke.” Chap. 2 in From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826, 56-74. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Hammon, Neal O. 2000. “Pioneer Routes in Central Kentucky” [overland; buffalo traces; 1770s]. Filson Club Historical Quarterly 74 (Spring): 125-143.
Hammon, Neal O. 2002. “Kentucky Pioneer Forts and Stations” [approx. 260 listed and described, 1770s-1790s]. Filson Historical Quarterly 76 (Fall): 523-586.
Hammon, Neal O., and James Russell Harris. 2004. “Daniel Boone the Surveyor: Old Images and New Realities.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102, no. 4: 534-566.
Hammon, Neal O., and Richard Taylor. 2002. Virginia’s Western War: 1775-1786. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 279 pp.
Hendricks, Christopher E. 2006. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia [25 attempted town formations]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 186 pp. Contents: The promised fruits of well-ordered towns -- The Piedmont -- The southside -- The great valley -- The mountains -- To cohabit in towns.
Hendricks, Christopher E. 2006. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia [includes chapters on Shenandoah Valley and “The Mountains”]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 186 pp.
Hensley, Judith Victoria. 2003. “A Bit of Appalachian Eden: Hensley Settlement” [founded 1803; Brush Mountain, Ky.]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 3-9.
Hinderaker, Eric, and Peter C. Mancall. 2003. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 210 pp.
Hinderaker, Eric. 1997. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press. 299 pp.
Hintzen, William, and Joseph Roxby. 2000. The Heroic Age: Tales of Wheeling’s Frontier Era [W.Va.]. Self-published, printed by Closson Press, Apollo, Pa. 135 pp.
Hintzen, William. 1996. "Betty Zane, Lydia Boggs, and Molly Scott: The Gunpowder Exploits at Fort Henry." [1782 at present site of Wheeling, W.Va.] West Virginia History 55 (1996): 25-40.
Hintzen, William. 1999. The Border Wars of the Upper Ohio Valley (1769-1794). Manchester, Conn.: Precision Shooting. 390 pp.
Hofstra, Warren R. 1998. “’The Extention of His Majesties Dominions’: The Virginia Backcountry and the Reconfiguration of Imperial Frontiers.” Journal of American History 84 (March): 1281-1312.
Hofstra, Warren R. 1998. “‘A Parcel of Barbarian’s and an Uncooth Set of People’: Settlers and Settlements of the Shenandoah Valley.” In George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry, ed. W. Hofstra, 87-114. Madison, Wis.: Madison House Publishers.
Hofstra, Warren R. 1998. “Epilogue: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on the Southern Colonial Backcountry, 1893-1998.” In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds. D. Crass, et al., 221-236. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hofstra, Warren R. 2004. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley [18th century]. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 410 pp.
Hofstra, Warren R. 2005. “‘And Die by Inches’: George Washington and the Encounter of Cultures on the Southern Colonial Frontier.” Chap. 3 in George Washington’s South, eds. T. Harvey and G. O’Brien, 69-85. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Hofstra, Warren R., and Clarence R. Geier. 2000. “Farm to Mill to Market: Historical Archaeology of an Emerging Grain Economy in the Shenandoah Valley.” In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 48-61. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hofstra, Warren R., ed. 2007. Cultures in Conflict: The Seven Years’ War in North America [1755-1763]. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. 191 pp. Contents: Introduction: old forts, new perspectives--thoughts on the Seven Years’ War and its significance / Fred Anderson -- British culture and the changing character of the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Paul Mapp -- Great power confrontation or clash of cultures?: France’s war against Britain and its antecedents / Jonathan R. Dull -- War, diplomacy, and culture: the Iroquois experience in the Seven Years’ War / Timothy J. Shannon -- Declaring independence: the Ohio Indians and the Seven Years’ War / Eric Hinderaker -- How the Seven Years’ War turned Americans into (British) patriots / Woody Holton -- The Seven Years’ War in Canadian history and memory / Catherine Desbarats and Allan Greer.
Hofstra, Warren R., ed. 1998. George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry [eight essays]. Madison, Wis.: Madison House Publishers. 265 pp.
Hogeland, William. 2006. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty [1794 Pa.]. New York: Scribner. 302 pp.
Horsman, Reginald. 2008. Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 356 pp.
Horton, Tonia Woods. 2000. “Hidden Gardens: The Town Gardens of T. J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and His Lexington Contemporaries” [Va.; kitchen gardens]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 111-134. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hsiung, David C. 1998. “‘Seeing’ Early Appalachian Communities through the Lenses of History, Geography, and Sociology” [Washington Co., Tenn., 1780-1800]. In The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, eds. D. Crass, et al., 162-181. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hudson, Charles M.. 2005 [1990]. The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568. With documents translated by Paul E. Hoffman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 366 pp. Originally published: Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Humphrey, Thomas J. 2008. “Conflicting Independence: Land Tenancy and the American Revolution.” Journal of the Early Republic 28, no. 2 (Summer): 160-182. Loudoun County, Va., and Hudson Valley, N.Y.
Hurt, R. Douglas. 1996. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 418 pp.
Hurt, R. Douglas. 1998. Nathan Boone and the American Frontier [Daniel Boone’s son; biography]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 256 pp.
Hyde, Samuel C., Jr. 2002. “Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South.” In A Companion to the American South, ed. J. Boles, 139-155. Blackwell Companions to American History, no. 3. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Irwin, Ned L. 2000. “Collecting Memory: Antiquarians and the Preservation of the Early History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier” [author is University Archivist at ETSU]. Journal of East Tennessee History 72: 62-81.
James, Alfred Procter, and Charles Morse Stotz. 2005 [1958]. Drums in the Forest: Decision at the Forks, by Alfred Procter James; Defense in the Wilderness, by Charles Morse Stotz [French and Indian War, 1755-1763]. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. 227 pp.
Johnson, Rody. 2005. In Their Footsteps: Explorers, Warriors, Capitalists, and Politicians of West Virginia. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 273 pp. [Contents: Pioneer John Lewis and his sons (1678-1811) -- Sergeant Patrick Gass of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1771-1870) -- Captain John Avis, John Brown’s jailer (1818-1883) -- John D. and C.C. Lewis, capitalists (1800-1917) -- Governor George W. Atkinson, Republican (1845-1925)].
Jurick Jeremy. 2006. “A Spatial Analysis of the Early Settlement of Somerset County, Pennsylvania” [1750-1850; six core settlements]. Pennsylvania Geographer 44, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 17-38.
Knepper, George W. 2003. Ohio and Its People. 3rd ed. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 521 pp. Comprehensive history including settlement, development, maps.
Knouff, Gregory T. 1998. “Soldiers and Violence on the Pennsylvania Frontier.” In Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland, eds. J. Frantz and W. Pencak, 171-193. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Knouff, Gregory T. 2004. The Soldiers’ Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 312 pp.
Koons, Kenneth E., and Warren R. Hofstra, eds. 2000. After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900 [19 chapters]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 314 pp.
Koons, Kenneth E., and Warren R. Hofstra. 2000. “Introduction: The World Wheat Made” [capitalism; markets; labor; slavery]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, xvii-xxix. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Koontz, Louis Knott. 2005 [1925]. The Virginia Frontier, 1754-1763 [Appendix: Pioneer forts, stockades, and block-houses on the Virginia frontier]. Facsimile reprint. Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books. 186 pp. Originally published: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
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