A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians

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181 Notes ) 1. David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, Bound and Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000), pp. 74–134; Lyman Chalkley, “Before the Gates of the Wilderness Road: The Settlement of Southwestern Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 30 (1922): 183–202; Jack M. Sosin, The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763–1783 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1967), pp. 43–45, 176–79; and Robert D. Mitchell, Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia , 1977). See also Miles Sturdivant Malone, “The Distribution of Population on the Virginia Frontier in 1775” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1935). Alder family genealogical information has been extracted from the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints Ancestral File 1QCZ-QVT. 2. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America, edited and with an introduction by Albert E. Stone (New York: Penguin Books, 1981), pp. 78–79, 84–86; Philip Vickers Fithian, Journal, 1775– 1776: Written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania Frontier and in the Army around New York, edited by Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Leonidas Dodson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1934), pp. 150–51. 3. Parke Rouse, Jr., The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the South (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973); For Boone’s eΩorts to bring settlers into Kentucky , see John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992), pp. 68–97. See also Thomas Speed, The Wilderness Road: A Description of the Routes of Travel by which the Pioneers and Early Settlers First Came to Kentucky (New York: Burt Franklin, 1886). 4. Fithian, Journal, pp. 54, 152–53, 164. For an overview of Indian depredations within the area, see Wills De Hass, History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia .l.l. (Wheeling: H. Hoblitzell, 1851), pp. 201–330; Alexander Scott Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfarel.l.l.l, edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company, 1895), pp. 318–64; Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763–1783 (Pittsburgh : John S. Ritenour and William T. Lindsey, 1912). 5. There are few studies for the general reader that deal with Ohio’s prehistoric Indians. Among the best are Martha A. Potter, Ohio’s Prehistoric Peoples (Columbus: 182 Notes Ohio Historical Society, 1968); Roger G. Kennedy, Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization .l.l. (New York: Free Press, 1994); Robert Silverberg, The Mound Builders (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1970); David S. Brose et al., Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians (New York: Harry N. Abrams and the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1986); and William F. Romain, Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers , and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2000). See also James E. Fitting, “Prehistory—Introduction,” in Bruce G. Trigger, ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15, Northeast (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978), pp. 14–15; Robert E. Funk, “Post-Pleistocene Adaptations,” ibid., pp. 16–27; James B. Gri≈n, “Late Prehistory of the Ohio Valley,” ibid., pp. 547–59; and William A. Hunter, “History of the Ohio Valley,” ibid., pp. 588–93. Those willing to investigate the specialized archaeological literature should begin by consulting three recent volumes published by the Ohio Archaeological Council: William S. Dancey, ed., The First Discovery of America: Archaeological Evidence of the Early Inhabitants of the Ohio Area (Columbus: Ohio Archaeological Council, 1994); Paul J. Pacheco, ed., A View from the Core: A Synthesis of Ohio Hopewell Archaeology (Columbus: Ohio Archaeological Council, 1996); and Robert A. Genheimer, ed., Cultures Before Contact: The Late Prehistory of Ohio and Surrounding Regions (Columbus: Ohio Archaeological Council, 2000). 6. Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610–1791, 73 vols. (New York: Pageant Book Co., 1959); George T. Hunt, The Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Inter-tribal Relations (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1940); Phillip R. Shriver, “The Beaver Wars and the Destruction of the Erie Nation,” Timeline Magazine 1 (1984/1985): 29–41. 7. Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region , 1650–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Michael N. McConnell , A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley...