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The Winning of the West, Vol. 4: Louisiana and the Northwest 1791–1807 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1889.
This is the final volume of the series. It was later reprinted in six volumes. My apologies for any misunderstanding. Aloha.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Note – This book is ‘read as written’. It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.
We all know of Theodore Roosevelt the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. But few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller. The first edition of his book sold out in little more than a month and helped establish Roosevelt as a literary man and scholar, placing him on a path toward future greatness.
CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME:
CHAPTER I. St. Clair’s Defeat, 1791
CHAPTER II. Mad Anthony Wayne; And the Fight of the Fallen Timbers, 1792–1795
CHAPTER III. Tennessee Becomes a State, 1791–1796
CHAPTER IV. Intrigues and Land Speculations—The Treaties of Jay and Pinckney, 1793–1796
CHAPTER V. The Men of the Western Waters, 1798–1802
CHAPTER VI. The Purchase of Louisiana; And Burr’s Conspiracy, 1803–1807
CHAPTER VII. The Explorers of the Far West, 1804–1807
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“The different idea that McMaster was laboriously illustrating was vehemently given in 1889 by the irruption into historiography of Theodore Roosevelt, aged thirty-one, with his Winning of the West. The formal opening of this field was a capital fact of American historiography. It signified the beginning of a serious evaluation of a great drama in human progress—a drama that had unfolded almost without intelligent notice through a century. The history of pioneering from the Appalachians to the Pacific, and its part in the building up of the nation.”
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American Historical Association
