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Author Havighurst, Walter, 1901-1994.

Title Land of promise; the story of the Northwest territory / by Walter Havighurst ...

Publication Info. New York : Macmillan Co., 1946.

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 Moore Stacks  F479 .H3    Available  ---
Description viii, 384 pages ; 22 cm
Note Map on lining-papers.
"First printing."
Contents pt. 1. Oldest sounds in the world: ch. 1. Land beyond the mountains -- ch. 2. Grass of graves -- ch. 3. Traveler's tales -- pt. 2. Winning of the West: ch. 4. Shadow of the rock -- ch. 5. Pack-horse man -- ch. 6. Forest conspiracy -- ch. 7. Redhead and the hair-buyer -- ch. 8. Two Simons -- ch. 9. Echo of Tippecanoe -- ch. 10. Chain and compass -- pt. 3. Restless nation: ch. 11. Where the rivers meet -- ch. 12. Frenchmen's landing -- ch. 13. Treason Island -- ch. 14. A long, uncertain road -- ch. 15. Autumn rains were the curtains -- ch. 16. Smoke on the Western waters -- ch. 17. Prairie's dreaming sod -- ch. 18. Trampled towpath -- ch. 19. Open road -- ch. 20. Engine, engine, number nine -- pt. 4. Four-thousand-mile-shoreline: ch. 21. Ohio harbors -- ch. 22. North to Mackinac -- ch. 23. Long looped lake -- ch. 24. A coast of wilderness.
Subject Northwest, Old -- History.