The Land Of The Miamis
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780548276396
Table of contents: title: -A Brief Retrospect. Indian Wars of the Early Northwest.; title: -What the Virginians Gave Us. Topographical description of country north of the Ohio River.; title: -The Beaver Trade. At the Close of the Revolutionary War.; title: -The Prairie and the Buffalo. The Buffalo as main food supply of the Indians.; title: -The Wabash and the Maumee. The chief line of communication with tribes of Early Northwest.; title: -The Tribes of the Northwest. Description and Location of 7 Tribes opposing Settlement.; title: -Real Savages. From the standpoint of the Frontiersmen.; title: -Our Indian Policy. Indian right of Occupancy through liberal policy of Washington and Jefferson.; title: -The Kentuckians.; title: -The British Policies. Reluctance to Surrender Northwest, Influence with Indians.; title: -Josiah Harmar. First Military Invasion of Northwest by Federal Government.; title: -Scott and Wilkinson. Kentucky Raids on Miami Country 1791.; title: -St. Clair’s Defeat. First great Disaster for Federal Armies.; title: -Wayne and Fallen Timbers. Triumph of Federal Armies over Indians and British.; title: -The Treaty of Greenville. Submission of Miamis and Surrender of Ohio Lands.; title: -Governor Harrison and the Treaty. Purchase of Miami Lands, Rise of Tecumseh, Tippecanoe.; title: -Results of the Treaty. Struggle of Harrison’s Political Enemies.; title: -The Shawnee Brothers. Tecumseh and the Prophet.; title: -Prophet’s Town. Capital of Shawnee Confederacy.; title: -Harrison’s Vigilance. He saves the Frontier Capital.; title: -The Council at Vincennes. Dramatic meeting between Harrison and Tecumseh.; title: -The Second and Last Council. Last meeting before Harrison marches into Indian Country.; title: -The Muster and the March. Muster of Volunteers and Arrival of Federal Troops.; title: -The Battle of Tippecanoe. Destruction of Tecumseh Confederacy.; title: -Naylor’s Narrative. Description of Battle by Participant.