The Tuscarawas Valley in Indian Days 1750-1797
Subtitle: Original Journals and Old Maps
Publisher: Gomber House Press
Published: May 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780964063464
Subjects: To 1787; United States - State & Local - General; Ohio; Ohio - Local History; History - U.S.; Tuscarawas River Valley (Ohio); History: American; Tuscarawas River Valley; 1787-1865; Delaware Indians; Moravian Indians; Shawnee Indians; United States - History - Colonial Period; United States - History - Revolutionary War; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History; Indians of North America
First sentence: 1750 was a watershed year in our history, in both a figurative and a literal sense, for it was in that year that Dr. Thomas Walker set out from North Carolina to explore the lands west of the mountains, known as Kentucky, for purposes of future settlement, and, a little later that same year, on October 31st, Christopher Gist left Thomas Cresap's house at Old Town along the Potomac on a similar journey whose sole purpose, also, was to seek out and explore lands west of the mountains, in the watersheds of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, for purposes of future settlement.