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Stories Of Ohio
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| PREFACE.
In the following stories, drawn from the annals of Ohio, I have tried to
possess the reader with a knowledge, in outline at least, of the history
of the State from the earliest times. I cannot suppose that I have done
this with unfailing accuracy in respect to fact, but with regard to the
truth, I am quite sure of my purpose at all times to impart it.
The books which have been of most use to me in writing this are the
histories of Francis Parkman; the various publications of Messrs. Robert
Clarke and Co. in the "Ohio Valley Series"; McClung's "Sketches of
Western Adventure"; "Ohio" (in the American Commonwealths Series) by Ruf
us King; "History and Civil Government of Ohio," by B. A. Hinsdale and
Mary Hinsdale; "Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley,"
by W. H. Venable; Theodore Roosevelt's "Winning of the West"; Whitelaw
Reid's "Ohio in the War"; and above all others, the delightful and
inexhaustible volumes of Henry Howe's "Historical Collections of Ohio."
W. D. H.
CONTENTS.
I. The Ice Folk and the Earth Folk
III. Ohio becomes English
IV. The Forty Years' War for the West
V. The Captivity of James Smith
VI. The Captivity of Boone and Kenton
VII. The Renegades
VIII. The Wickedest Deed in our History
IX. The Torture of Colonel Crawford
X. The Escape of Knight and Slover
XI. The Indian Wars and St. Clair's Defeat
XII. The Indian Wars and Wayne's Victory
XIII. Indian Fighters
XIV. Later Captivities
XVII. The First Great Settlements
XVIII. The State of Ohio in the War of 1812
XIX. A Foolish Man, a Philosopher, and a Fanatic
XX. Ways Out
XXII. The Civil War in Ohio
XXIII. Famous Ohio Soldiers
XXIV. Ohio Statesmen
XXVI. Incidents and Characteristics
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Source: The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories Of Ohio, by William Dean Howells
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