Western Lands and the American Revolution

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Abbreviations Used in the Notes xi
• Contents xiii
• List of Maps xv
• Chapter I Virginia Looks Beyond the Mountains 1
• Chapter II Franklin and His Friends Consider the West 14
• Chapter III Vandalia 40
• Chapter IV Virginia's Indian Boundary 59
• Chapter V Extension of the Virginia Frontier, 1769-1773 79
• Chapter VI Virginia-Pennsylvania Boundary Dispute 91
• Chapter VII Struggle with the Shawnee For Kentucky 98
• Chapter VIII The Illinois and Wabash Land Companies 116
• Chapter IX Virginia and the Transylvania Company 123
• Chapter X West Augusta and Indiana 136
• Chapter XI Radicals and Conservatives in Virginia 149
• Chapter XII Independence and Virginia's Western Land Problem 162
• Chapter XIII The Land Question and the Continental Congress, 1776 169
• Chapter XIV Watchful Waiting, 1777 180
• Chapter XV The Conquest of the Illinois 193
• Chapter XVI Congressional Politics, 1778 205
• Chapter XVII Virginia's Western Land Policy, 1778-1779 217
• Chapter XVIII Congress and the West, 1779 230
• Chapter XIX Virginia and the West, 1780-1781 242
• Chapter XX Virginia and the West, 1782-1783 258
• Chapter XXI The Treaty of 1783 and the West 274
• Chapter XXII The Movement for New Western States, 1784-1785 288
• Chapter XXIII The West in Distress, 1786 311
• Chapter XXIV A Year of Confusion, 1787 325
• Chapter XXV Spanish and British Intrigue in the West, 1788-1789 338
• Chapter XVII Retrospect 362
• Bibliography Bibliographical Aids 370
• Index 393

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