{"product_id":"2940013841284","title":"PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.    THE TREAD OF PIONEERS\u003cbr\u003e     II.   FOLKWAYS\u003cbr\u003e     III.  THE TRADER\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   THE PASSING OF THE FRENCH PERIL\u003cbr\u003e     V.    BOONE, THE WANDERER\u003cbr\u003e     VI.   THE FIGHT FOR KENTUCKY\u003cbr\u003e     VII.  THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. TENNESSEE\u003cbr\u003e     IX.   KING'S MOUNTAIN\u003cbr\u003e     X.    SEVIER, THE STATEMAKER\u003cbr\u003e     XI.   BOONE'S LAST DAYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I. The Tread Of Pioneers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ulster Presbyterians, or \"Scotch-Irish,\" to whom history has\u003cbr\u003eascribed the dominant role among the pioneer folk of the Old Southwest,\u003cbr\u003ebegan their migrations to America in the latter years of the seventeenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury. It is not known with certainty precisely when or where the\u003cbr\u003efirst immigrants of their race arrived in this country, but soon after\u003cbr\u003e1680 they were to be found in several of the colonies. It was not long,\u003cbr\u003eindeed, before they were entering in numbers at the port of Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003eand were making Pennsylvania the chief center of their activities in the\u003cbr\u003eNew World. By 1726 they had established settlements in several counties\u003cbr\u003ebehind Philadelphia. Ten years later they had begun their great trek\u003cbr\u003esouthward through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and on to the Yadkin\u003cbr\u003eValley of North Carolina. There they met others of their own race--bold\u003cbr\u003emen like themselves, hungry after land--who were coming in through\u003cbr\u003eCharleston and pushing their way up the rivers from the seacoast to the\u003cbr\u003e\"Back Country,\" in search of homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese Ulstermen did not come to the New World as novices in the shaping\u003cbr\u003eof society; they had already made history. Their ostensible object\u003cbr\u003ein America was to obtain land, but, like most external aims, it was\u003cbr\u003esecondary to a deeper purpose. What had sent the Ulstermen to America\u003cbr\u003ewas a passion for a whole freedom. They were lusty men, shrewd and\u003cbr\u003ecourageous, zealous to the death for an ideal and withal so practical to\u003cbr\u003ethe moment in business that it soon came to be commonly reported of them\u003cbr\u003ethat \"they kept the Sabbath and everything else they could lay their\u003cbr\u003ehands on,\" though it is but fair to them to add that this phrase is\u003cbr\u003ecurrent wherever Scots dwell. They had contested in Parliament and with\u003cbr\u003earms for their own form of worship and for their civil rights. They\u003cbr\u003ewere already frontiersmen, trained in the hardihood and craft of border\u003cbr\u003ewarfare through years of guerrilla fighting with the Irish Celts. They\u003cbr\u003ehad pitted and proved their strength against a wilderness; they had\u003cbr\u003ereclaimed the North of Ireland from desolation. For the time, many of\u003cbr\u003ethem were educated men; under the regulations of the Presbyterian Church\u003cbr\u003eevery child was taught to read at an early age, since no person could be\u003cbr\u003eadmitted to the privileges of the Church who did not both understand and\u003cbr\u003eapprove the Presbyterian constitution and discipline. They were brought\u003cbr\u003eup on the Bible and on the writings of their famous pastors, one of\u003cbr\u003ewhom, as early as 1650, had given utterance to the democratic doctrine\u003cbr\u003ethat \"men are called to the magistracy by the suffrage of the people\u003cbr\u003ewhom they govern, and for men to assume unto themselves power is mere\u003cbr\u003etyranny and unjust usurpation.\" In subscribing to this doctrine and\u003cbr\u003ein resisting to the hilt all efforts of successive English kings to\u003cbr\u003einterfere in the election of their pastors, the Scots of Ulster had\u003cbr\u003ealready declared for democracy.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180296880368,"sku":"2940013841284","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013841284_p0.jpg?v=1763595422","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013841284","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}