III. THE TRADER
IV. THE PASSING OF THE FRENCH PERIL
V. BOONE, THE WANDERER
VI. THE FIGHT FOR KENTUCKY
VII. THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND VIII. TENNESSEE
IX. KING'S MOUNTAIN
X. SEVIER, THE STATEMAKER
XI. BOONE'S LAST DAYS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


Pioneers Of The Old Southwest

Chapter I. The Tread Of Pioneers

The Ulster Presbyterians, or "Scotch-Irish," to whom history has
ascribed the dominant role among the pioneer folk of the Old
Southwest, began their migrations to America in the latter years
of the seventeenth century. It is not known with certainty
precisely when or where the first immigrants of their race
arrived in this country, but soon after 1680 they were to be
found in several of the colonies. It was not long, indeed, before
they were entering in numbers at the port of Philadelphia and
were making Pennsylvania the chief center of their activities in
the New World. By 1726 they had established settlements in
several counties behind Philadelphia. Ten years later they had
begun their great trek southward through the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia and on to the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina. There
they met others of their own race--bold men like themselves,
hungry after land--who were coming in through Charleston and