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Indian Frontier Conflicts.Pdf U.S. Army Military History Institute Revolutionary War-Battles/Places 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 30 May 2012 INDIAN FRONTIER CONFLICTS A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources CONTENTS General Sources.....p.1 Pennsylvania/Virginia -General Sources.....p.2 -Wyoming Valley, 1778.....p.3 Ohio & Northwest -General Sources.....p.4 -Clark's Campaigns.....p.4 -Sandusky Expedition, 1782.....p.5 New York/New England -General Sources.....p.6 -Sullivan Expedition, 1779.....p.7 -Willett's Expedition, 1783.....p.10 GENERAL SOURCES Flint, Timothy. Indian Wars of the West: Containing Biographical Sketches of Those Pioneers Who Headed Western Settlers in Repelling the Attacks of the Savages. Cincinnati, OH: Flint, 1833. 240 p. E81.F62RareBook. Gilmore, James R. (Edmund Kirke, pseud). The Rear Guard of the Revolution. NY: Appleton, 1886. 317 p. E263.N8.G4. Graymont, Barbara. “The Border War: The Iroquois in the American Revolution”. PhD dss, Columbia, 1969. 566 p. E269.15.G73. Mann, Barbara A. George Washington’s War on Native America. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 295 p. E230.5.N67.M36. Shannon, Timothy J. “The Native American Way of War in the Age of Revolutions, 1754-1814.” In War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815. NY: Cambridge, 2010. pp. 137-58. U39.W36. Indian Frontier Conflicts p.2 Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. NY: Norton, 2008. 406 p. E77.S55. Sleeper-Smith, Susan. “’Ignorant Bigots and busy Rebels’: The American Revolution in the Western Great Lakes.” In The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. East Lansing, MI: MI State, 2001. pp. 145-65. F551.S59. Stevens, Paul L. “His Majesty’s ‘Savage’ Allies: British Policy and the Northern Indians during the Revolutionary War: The Carleton Years, 1774-1778.” PhD dss, SUNY-Buffalo, 1984. 2496 p. E83.775.S83.Microfilm. Tiro, Karim M. “Ambivalent Allies: Strategy and the Native Americans.” In Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach. NY: Routledge, 2010. pp. 120-40. E271.S77. Van Every, Dale. A Company of Heroes: The American Frontier, 1775-1783. NY: Morrow, 1962. E263.N84.V3. Waller, George MacGregor. American Revolution in the West. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976. 153 p. E263.N84.W32. Williams, Glenn F. Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign against the Iroquois. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2005. 355 p. E233.W55. See also: -Bibliography on Pre-20th Century Rangers in Rangers. PENNSYLVANIA/VIRGINIA-General Sources Doddridge, Joseph. Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783..... Baltimore: Clearfield, 1998 reprint of earlier editions. 320 p. F517.D62. Hayden, Horace Edwin. A Brief Sketch of Captain Joseph Davis and Lieutenant William Jones of the Pennsylvania Line, Who Were Slain by the Indians at Laurel Run, PA., April 23, 1779. [Read before the Wyoming Historical & Geographical Society], 21 May 1897. Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1897. 17 p. E235.H42. Moore, Roger H. The Bloodstained Field: A History of the Sugarloaf Massacre, September 11, 1780. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 2000. 108 p. E235.M66. Indian Frontier Conflicts p.3 Phelps, Mrs. John Case. An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Erection of a Monument at Laurel Run, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1896, to Mark the Spot Where Captain Joseph Davis and Lieutenant William Jones Were Slain by Indians April 23, 1779. Wilkes- Barre, PA: Wyoming Historical & Geographical Society, 1897. 41 p. E235.P53. Sadosky, Leonard. “Rethinking the Gnadenhutten Massacre: The Contest for Power in the Public World of the Revolutionary Pennsylvania Frontier.” In The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. East Lansing, MI: MI State, 2001. pp. 187-213. F551.S59. Sherrard, Robert A. A Narrative of the Wonderful Escape and Dreadful Sufferings of Colonel James Paul..... Cincinnati, OH: Spiller, 1869. 22 p. E207.A36.A4. Bound in American Revolutionary Pamphlets, Vol. 22. Shimmell, Lewis S. Border Warfare in Pennsylvania during the Revolution. Harrisburg, PA: Myers, 1901. 153 p. E263.P4.S5. Simpson-Poffenbarger, Livia N. Battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 1774: “First Battle of the Revolution.” [Edited by Charles W. Bennett] Parsons, WV: McClain Print, 1998. 155 p. E83.77.S567. Swartz, Roger G. Fields of Honor: The Battle of Fort Freeland, July 28, 1779. Turbotville, PA: Warrior Run-Freedland Heritage Society, 1996. 114 p. E241.F74.S93. PENNSYLVANIA/VIRGINIA-Wyoming Valley, 1778 Hayden, Horace E. Major John Garrett, Slain July 3, 1778: A Forgotten Hero of the Massacre of Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1985. 24 p. Bound in E241.W9.W9. Matthews, Alfred. Ohio and Her Western Reserve: With a Story of Three States Leading to the Latter, from Connecticut, by Way of Wyoming, Its Indian Wars and Massacre. NY: Appleton, 1902. 330 p. F491.M37. Miner, Charles. History of Wyoming..... Phila: Crissy, 1845. 592 p. F157.W9.M66RareBook. Includes lists of Continentals and civilians killed. Scott, Eben G. Historical Address by...Delivered at the Wyoming Monument, July Third, 1893..... n.p.: Wyoming Commemorative Association, 1893. 18 p. E241.W9.S42. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the Library. Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Wyoming: Hearings Before the…. Wash, DC: GPO, 1928. 16 p. E241.W9.U5. pp. 12-13 includes "the only list available of those killed in the battle and afterwards" (i.e., Continental troops, 3-6 Jul 1778). Indian Frontier Conflicts p.4 Wilcox, William A. The Flight from Wyoming: An Address at the Wyoming Monument on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Ninth Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming, July 2, 1887. Wilkes-Barre, PA: Wilkes-Barre Record, 1900. 12 p. E241.W9.W6. Wyoming Historical & Geographical Society. The Massacre of Wyoming: The Acts of Congress for the Defense of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, 1776-1778... Wilkes-Barre, PA: 1895. 109 p. E241.W9.W9. Zawadski, Alfonso S. "The British Viewpoint of the Battle of Wyoming." MA thesis, U Scranton, 1968. 109 p. E241.W9.Z32. OHIO & NORTHWEST-General Sources Hulbert, Archer B. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin: The Conquest of the Old Northwest. Cleveland, OH: Clark, 1904. 237 p. HE355.H9v8. Kellogg, Louise P., editor. Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, 1778-1779. Madison, WI: WI Historical Society, 1916. 509 p. F476.D729v4Microfilm. _____. Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781. Madison, WI: WI Historical Society, 1917. 549 p. F476.D729v5Microfilm. Thwaites, Reuben G., & Kellogg, Louise P., editors. Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778. Madison, WI: WI Historical Society, 1912. 329 p. E230.5.O3.T5 & F476.D729v3Microfilm. _____. The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1970 reprint of 1908 edition. 275 p. E230.5.O3.T6 & F476.D729v2Microfilm. Stone, Lyle M. Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781; An Archaeological Perspective on the Revolutionary Frontier. East Lansing, MI: MI State, 1974. 367 p. UA26M17S7. OHIO & NORTHWEST-Clark’s Campaigns Alberts, Robert C. George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest. Wash, DC: National Park Service, 1975. 65 p. E263.N84.A42. Barnhart, John D. Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution: With the Unpublished Journal of Henry Hamilton. Crawfordsville, IN: Banta, 1951. 244 p. E234.H2.B3. Indian Frontier Conflicts p.5 Butterfield, Consul W. History of George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the Illinois and the Wabash Towns, 1778 and 1779. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972 reprint of 1904 edition. 815 p. E234.B99Microfilm. Calendar of the George Rogers Clark Papers: Series J in the Draper Manuscripts. 14 microfiche. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of WI, 1979. F476.D73serJMicrofiche. Clark, George Rogers. Col. George Rogers Clark's Sketch of his Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9; ...and Major Bowman's Journal of the Taking of Post St. Vincents. Cincinnati, OH: Clarke, 1869. 119 p. E234C59. _____. The Capture of Vincennes, 1779. Vol. 2. Boston: Old South Work, 1896. 16 p. E173.O44v2. _____. George Rogers Clark Miscellanies Microfilm. 6 reels. Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healey, n.d. E207.C5.G46. _____. George Rogers Clark Papers. [Edited by James A. James] 2 vols. Springfield, IL: IL State Historical Library, 1912. F536.I25v8. Derleth, August W. Vincennes: Portal to the West. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 210 p. E234.D35. Harrison, Lowell H. George Rogers Clark and the War in the West Lexington, KY: U KY, 1976. 119 p. E263.N84.H37. Havighurst, Walter. George Rogers Clark, Soldier in the West. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1952. 216 p. E207.C5.H3. A List of Officers of the Illinois Regiment, and of Crockett's Regiment, Who have Received Land for Their Services: A List of Officers of the Illinois Regiment, Who have not Received Lands, for Revolutionary Services. A list of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the Illinois Regiment, and the Western Army, under the Command of General George Rogers Clarke, Who are Entitled to Bounty in Land. A List of Captain Francis Charloville's Volunteers, Entitled to Two Hundred Acres of Land Each. Anchorage, KY: Borderland, 1962. 24 p. F545.F57. OHIO & NORTHWEST-Sandusky Expedition, 1782 Butterfield, Consul W. An Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky under Col. William Crawford in 1782. Cincinnati, OH: Clarke, 1873. 403 p. E238.B98. _____. Washington Irvine Correspondence. The Official Letters Which Passed between Washington and Brig. Gen. William Irvine and Between Irvine and Others Concerning Military Affairs in the West from 1781 to 1783. Arranged and Annotated, with an Introduction Containing an Outline of Events Occurring Previously in the Trans-Allegheny Country..... Madison, WI: Atwood, 1882. 430 p. E203.B98. Indian Frontier Conflicts p.6 Doddridge, Joseph. Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania…, cited above.
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