The Ohio Frontier : An Anthology of Early Writings.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Europeans Discover Ohio 1750-1782 -- The First English Journal of the Ohio Country: Christopher Gist's Journals, 1750-1751 -- The Burning of Pickawillany: Captain William Trent's Journal of His Trip from Logstown to Pickawillany, 1752 -- James Smith's Captivity among the Indians: The Memoirs of James Smith, 1755-1759 -- The Indians Preach to the Preacher: Charles Beatty's Missionary Trip to the Ohio Indians, 1766 -- A Would-Be Missionary: The Journal of the Reverend David Jones, 1772-1773 -- Moravian Indians Migrate to Ohio: John Heckewelder's Diary of the Trip to Gnadenhutten, 1773 -- The Massacre of Chief Logan's Family: Henry folley's Account, 1774 -- Who Is There to Mourn for Logan! Chief Logan's Speech, 1774 -- Trade and War: A Letter from Governor John Venn to the Shawnees, 1774 -- An Early Tourist: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1775 -- Negotiating with the Indians: The Journal of Colonel Richard Butler, 1775 -- An Official Description of the Ohio Country: Selections from Thomas Pownall, 1776 -- The Rescue of Jane Stoops from the Indians: Three Accounts of Samuel Brady's Rescue of Jane Stoops, 1780 -- An Expedition against the Indians: Henry Wilson's Account of George Rogers Clark's Campaign against the Shawnees, 1780 -- The First White Child in Ohio: John Heckewelder's Memoir of the Birth of His Daughter, 1781 -- Colonel Crawford's Death at the Stake: William Croghan's Report on the Tragic Aftermath of the Battle of the Olentangy, 1782 -- PART TWO: The Tomahawk, the Sword, and the Plough 1783-1815 -- Rousting the Squatters: Ensign Armstrong's Report on Destroying Squatters' Cabins, 1785 -- Marietta in Its Infancy: The Journal of Colonel John May, 1788-1789.

These Beautiful Shores: Descriptions of Ohio by Manasseh Cutler and St. John de Crevecoeur, circa 1789 -- Recollections of an Early Cincinnati Settler: A Letter from Luke Foster, 1789 -- Growing Up Indian: The Memoir of Jonathan Alder, 1786-1805 -- Early Marietta Settlers: Joseph Barker's Journal, 1795 and After -- A Winter Journey Down the Ohio: Francis Baily's Journal of a Tour to Unsettled Parts, 1796-1797 -- A Picnic in Old Chillicothe: From the Diary of the Reverend James Smith, 1797 -- The Pioneer Household: Thomas Ewing's Childhood Adventures, 1798-1800 -- A Circuit-Riding Preacher in the Western Reserve: A Memoir of the Reverend Joseph Badger, 1801-1803 and After -- Work and Play in Trumbull County: Leonard Case's Memoir, 1800 and After -- A Waynesville Quaker: A Letterfrom Samuel Linton, 1804 -- A Letter from Worthington: Ruhamah Hays Writes to Friends Back in Connecticut, 1805 -- Mahoning County Hero: Roswell Grant Remembers James Hillman, circa 1806 -- A German Missionary in Ohio: The Reverend Paul Henkel Preaches at Brush Creek, 1806 -- A Trip along Zane's Trace: Selections from Fortescue Cuming's Travel Book, 1807 -- A Businessman's Perspective: The Travels of John Melish, 1811 -- Some Pioneer Memories: Henry Curtis's Youth in Licking County, 1809-1815 -- Cleveland in Infancy: Isham Morgan Remembers the Village, 1812-1813 -- The Maumee Settlement and the War of 1812: Philothe Clark Recalls Her Family's Flight to Urbana, 1811-1812 -- Early Child Labor: Royal Taylor Works for His Weight in Sugar, circa 1813 -- News from the Frontier: A Letter from Cynthia Barker to Julia Buttles, 1813 -- Squatters on Indian Land: A Letter from Benjamin Stickney to Major General John Gano, 1813 -- PART THREE: The Passing of the Frontier 1816-1843 -- The Hard Life of the Small Farmer: Recollections of William Cooper Howells.

John Stewart and James Finley Preach to the Wyandots: A Memoir by William Walker, and the Reverend James Finley's Accounts of the Upper Sandusky Mission, 1816-1825 -- Ohiomania": John Stillman Wright's Cautionary Tale, 1818 -- An English Farmer Follows his Curiosity: William Faux's Memorable Days Traveling in Ohio, 1819 -- An Unhappy Visitor: Zerah Hawley Travels from Old to New Connecticut, 1820-1821 -- The Death of Charles Brady: Charity Osborn Tells of Early Widowhood, 1824 -- A Quaker Woman on the Frontier: Letter of Anna Briggs Bentley, 1826 -- An English Lady in Cincinnati: Fiances Trollope's Book about Cincinnati, 1828 -- Otto-wau-kee Speaks for His People -- Swiss Immigrants on the Ohio Canals: The Diary of Joseph Suppiger, 1831 -- The Capture of a Fugitive Slave: A Newspaper Report -- The Escape of a Fugitive Slave: The Memoir of William Wells Brown, 1834 -- Early Oberlin: Marianne Dascomb Arrives at Oberlin College, 1834 -- Charles Hoffman's Winter in the West: A New Yorker Goes West, 1834-1835 -- A Young Man's Travels: The Journal of Cyrus P. Bradley, 1835 -- A German Woman on the Ohio Frontier: The Memoir of Liwwdt Boke, 1835 and After -- Following the Dream: Letters of the Thomson Family in Ohio and Indiana, 1818-1836 -- Disease and Death on the Frontier: Judge Fowler Remembers the Death of His Family, 1836 -- The Battle of the Bridge: Oren Wiley Tells of Early Commercial Competition, 1836 -- Childhood in Van Wert County: Thaddeus Gilliland's Boyhood, 1835 and After -- Ottawa Indians Leave Ohio: Dresden W.H. Howard's Memoir of the Removal of Ottawas from the Maumee Valley, 1838 -- News from Cleveland: Newspaper Stories from a Growing Industrial City, 1839-1841 -- The Last Good-bye: The Xenia Torch-light Notes the Departure of the Wyandots, 1843 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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