Add this copy of George Rogers Clark, pioneer hero of the Old Northwest to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by red rover do over rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from luxemburg, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1927 by World book company.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Pioneers, Biography, Juvenile Literature) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Add this copy of George Rogers Clark; Pioneer Hero of the Old Northwest to cart. $85.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1927 by World Book Company.
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Good. xxi, [1], 210. Maps. Illustrations. Index. Cover worn. Pamphlet from the Daughters of the American Revolution commending the volume and related ephemera laid in. Promotional material on the book from the publisher laid in. Includes Introduction by James Albert Woodburn Also includes chapters on In Old Virginia, Westward Ho! , Old Kentucky, Patriot Vision, Corn Island, Kaskaslia; The Big Knife and the Indians; Foemen of Steel; The Desperate Dilemma; Crossing Illinois; The Taking of Vincennes; Historic Results; The Terrible Shawnees; Ingratitude and Gloom; Swords of Virginia; A Great Friendship; and Life's Tenderest String. Also includes Appendix including Father Pierre Gibault; Francis Vigo; and Pronunciation of Difficult Names. Dr. Ross Franklin Lockridge, Sr. was a writer and lecturer on Indiana and Midwest history. His most recent book was "The Story of Indiana". He also wrote "George Rogers Clark, " "A. Lincoln, " "The Hoosier Township Trustee, " and "LaSalle, " among others. He was born in 1877 and worked his way through Indiana University by teaching, taking his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1900 and the Bachelor of Laws Degree in 1907. In 1907 he opened a law office in Shawnee, Okla., and served as a police judge, county judge and public defender of Oklahoma before returning to Indiana in 1913. He had also been an extension lecturer for Indiana University and for a number of years was field extension secretary. He was state director of the Federal Writers Project and from 1935 to 1937 was director of the Hoosier Memorial Activities under the Indiana University Foundation. George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752-February 13, 1818) was an American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer from Virginia who became the highest-ranking American patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779) during the Illinois Campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest". Clark's major military achievements occurred before his thirtieth birthday. Afterward, he led militia in the opening engagements of the Northwest Indian War. He left Kentucky to live on the Indiana frontier but was never fully reimbursed by Virginia for his wartime expenditures. During the final decades of his life, he suffered living in increasing poverty and obscurity. He was involved in two failed attempts to open the Spanish-controlled Mississippi River to American traffic. After suffering a stroke and the amputation of his right leg, he became an invalid. He was aided in his final years by family members, including his younger brother William, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He died of a stroke on February 13, 1818.
