Ohio's Western Reserve: a Regional Reader

by Haddad Ed., Gladys

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Full title :Ohio's Western Reserve : a Regional Reader.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Kent State University Press
Place of Publication:Ashland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781612770192, 1612770193
oclc:on1040062586
LC Classification:F497.W5 ǂb O35 1988eb
Dewey Decimal:977.1/36

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders -- The Beaver Wars and the Destruction of the Erie Nation -- Archaeology and History: Some Suggestions from the Historian's Viewpoint -- With Moses Cleaveland's Surveying Party, 1796 -- Early Migration to the Western Reserve -- The Firelands and the Settlement of Vermilion -- Samuel Huntington: A Connecticut Aristocrat on the Ohio Frontier -- Additional Reading -- PART II: The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy -- David Hudson: The Howling Wilderness -- Frontier Living Conditions in Kirtland -- Cleveland as Canal Town -- Fairport: The Transformation of a Lake Erie Port, 1812-1870 -- Eastern Criticism of Frontier Religion -- Shakers and Mormons in the Early Western Reserve: A Contrast in Life Styles -- The First Women's Colleges -- Student Life at Western Reserve College -- Additional Reading -- PART III: The Transition Years: Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880 -- 1820-1860 Anti-Slavery Activities in a Western Reserve County -- Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Cases, 1858-1859 -- Lincoln and …