Pioneers of the Old Southwest; a Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground, by Constance Lindsay Skinner

Published: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1919

Volume 18 of The Chronicles of America series. Covers mainly the Pioneers, war with the French and Indians, the fight for Kentucky, Tennessee, Battle of King's Mountain, John Sevier, Daniel Boone

CONTENTS:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CHAPTER I. THE TREAD OF PIONEERS
CHAPTER II. FOLKWAYS
CHAPTER III. THE TRADER
CHAPTER IV. THE PASSING OF THE FRENCH PERIL
CHAPTER V. BOONE, THE WANDERER
CHAPTER VI. THE FIGHT FOR KENTUCKY
CHAPTER VII. THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND
CHAPTER VIII. TENNESSEE
CHAPTER IX. KING'S MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER X. SEVIER, THE STATEMAKER
CHAPTER XI. BOONE'S LAST DAYS

This narrative is founded largely on original sources--on the writings and journals of pioneers and contemporary observers, such as Doddridge and Adair, and on the public documents of the period as printed in the Colonial Records and in the American Archives. But the author is, nevertheless, greatly indebted to the researches of, other writers, whose works are cited in the Bibliographical Note. The author's thanks are due, also, to Dr. Archibald Henderson, of the University of North Carolina, for his kindness in reading the proofs of this book for comparison with his own extended collection of unpublished manuscripts relating to the period.

C. L. S.

April, 1919.