Land of promise the story of the Northwest territory

Havighurst, Walter 1901-1994 (Author).

Summary: Early history of the Great Lakes Region of America.

Record details

Physical Description: print
viii, 384 pages 22 cm
Publisher: New York, Macmillan Co., 1946.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Map on lining-papers.

"First printing."

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. The oldest sounds in the world: ch. 1. The land beyond the mountains -- ch. 2. The grass of graves -- ch. 3. Traveler's tales -- pt. 2. The winning of the West: ch. 4. The shadow of the rock -- ch. 5. Pack-horse man -- ch. 6. The forest conspiracy -- ch. 7. The redhead and the hair-buyer -- ch. 8. The two Simons -- ch. 9. The echo of Tippecanoe -- ch. 10. Chain and compass -- pt. 3. The restless nation: ch. 11. Where the rivers meet -- ch. 12. Frenchmen's landing -- ch. 13. Treason Island -- ch. 14. A long, uncertain road -- ch. 15. Autumn rains were the curtains -- ch. 16. Smoke on the Western waters -- ch. 17. The prairie's dreaming sod -- ch. 18. The trampled towpath -- ch. 19. The open road -- ch. 20. Engine, engine, number nine -- pt. 4. Four-thousand-mile-shoreline: ch. 21. Ohio harbors -- ch. 22. North to Mackinac -- ch. 23. The long looped lake -- ch. 24. A coast of wilderness.