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As part of the regional revival, this recreates vigorously, vividly, the rude, reckless, shiftless, stoic life of the Dixie frontier, - the men and women who settled there in new country. Opened up by Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road in 1775, larger migrations were to follow:- squatters, the "cutting edge of the frontier", planters and their slaves, land speculators. Here was the life in stations and on plantations, early methods of marketing an...

A faithful and brilliant study of some of the roots of the American way."—Joseph Henry Jackson, New York Herald Tribune Books

Anyone in search of the spirit of the Old West will find it in this book. In fact, any student in college taking a course in the history of the West or even in a general history of the United States should be required to read Dick's book, and when once the student had sniffed its atmosphere, the required would no longer be necessary."-Georgia Historical Quarterly "An entertaining and comprehensive collection. . . . The reader is sure to put Di...