We tend to romanticize the pioneers. In the popular imagination they arrive on the frontier fully formed, capable of everything, afraid of nothing. They fell trees, raise cabins, plant crops,
Category: 19th Century
The Virginia Military District: How a Revolution Was Paid For in Ohio LandThe Virginia Military District: How a Revolution Was Paid For in Ohio Land
When the American Revolution ended in 1783, the new United States faced a problem it had no money to solve. The soldiers, officers, and veterans who had fought for American