| Title | Visions of the Western Reserve : public and private documents of northeastern Ohio, 1750-1860 / edited by Robert A. Wheeler.
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| Published | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2000.
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| Description | xv, 389 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8142-0827-4 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-8142-5029-7 (pbk.) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-369) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Partial Contents: Document one. Benjamin Franklin on the strategic importance of the area, 1755 -- Document two. James Smith: Indian captive in northeastern Ohio, 1755 --Document three. John Heckewelder: Narrative of the Cuyahoga Indian settlement, 1785 -- Document four. George Washington on the strategic importance of the Cuyahoga River, 1786 -- Document five. Moses Cleaveland on the first expedition into the Reserve, 1796 -- Document six. David Hudson, Sr.: an early settler arrives in northeastern Ohio, 1799 --Document seven. Joseph Badger: The diary of the first missionary, 1801-1803 -- Document eight. Sarah Day: The diary of a young wife whose husband has gone to war, 1812 -- Document nine. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth: The impression of an investor and traveler, 1811 -- Document ten. John Melish: A Scottish traveler evaluates the Reserve for foreign immigrants, 1811 -- Document eleven. Emily Nash: A girl's view of growing up on the frontier, 1812-1820 -- Document twelve. Zerah Hawley: A critical view of the Reserve in the early 1820s -- Document thirteen. Amzi Atwater: An overview of the Reserve before and after the canal, 1824-183l -- Document fourteen. David Hudson, Jr.: A young man in Cleveland, 1825 -- Document fifteen. David Beardsley: Birthday commentaries on his life, 1826-1839 -- Document sixteen. Thomas Kelly: A Manx immigrant in the Western Reserve, 1828 -- Document seventeen. Isaac Reid: An Irish immigrant in Cleveland, 1830s -- Document eighteen. David Griffiths, Jr.: A Welsh clergyman in northeastern Ohio, 1835 -- Document nineteen. Julius P. Bolivar MacCabe: Cleveland's first city directory, 1837 -- Document twenty. John Malvin: An African American in Cleveland during the 1830s -- Document twenty-one. Emily Nash: A teenager in New Connecticut, 1820-1826 -- Document twenty-two. John Barr, Cleveland publicist, 1845 -- Document twenty-three. Jacob Mueller: A German perspective on Cleveland in the l850s -- Document twenty-four. Henry Howe: Summit County description and stories, 1847 -- Document twenty-five. David Beardsley: Birthday commentaries on his life, 1840-1860 -- Document twenty-six. Jared Potter Kirtland: A scientist evaluates changes in the Reserve's flora and fauna, 1850 -- Document twenty-seven. John Malvin: Incidents in the racial history of Ohio, 1840-1860.
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| Subjects | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Biography.
Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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| Other Authors | Wheeler, Robert Anthony, 1942-
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| LC Card Number | 99-39784 |
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