Ohio's Western Reserve: A Regional Reader

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders
	The Beaver Wars and the Destruction of the Erie Nation
	Archaeology and History: Some Suggestions from the Historian\'s Viewpoint
	With Moses Cleaveland\'s Surveying Party, 1796
	Early Migration to the Western Reserve
	The Firelands and the Settlement of Vermilion
	Samuel Huntington: A Connecticut Aristocrat on the Ohio Frontier
	Additional Reading
PART II: The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy
	David Hudson: The Howling Wilderness
	Frontier Living Conditions in Kirtland
	Cleveland as Canal Town
	Fairport: The Transformation of a Lake Erie Port, 1812-1870
	Eastern Criticism of Frontier Religion
	Shakers and Mormons in the Early Western Reserve: A Contrast in Life Styles
	The First Women\'s Colleges
	Student Life at Western Reserve College
	Additional Reading
PART III: The Transition Years: Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880
	1820-1860 Anti-Slavery Activities in a Western Reserve County
	Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Cases, 1858-1859
	Lincoln and Rumors of War Cleveland Plain Dealer March 4, 1861 April 5, 1861 April 6, 1861 April 8, 1861
	Cleveland During the Civil War
	Civil War Prisons: Johnson\'s Island
	Building the Railroads
	Garfield\'s Front Porch Campaign: The Mentor Scene
	The Funeral of the Century: James A. Garfield
	Additional Reading
PART IV: A Changing Legacy: Industrialism, Ethnicity, and the Age of Reform
	Personalities of an Era... Intersections: Rockefeller, Mather, Tarbell
	When Euclid Avenue Was Somebody
	A Couple of Giants: Mark Hanna and Tom Johnson
	Northeastern Ohio\'s Mennonite and Amish Folk
	Social Reform and Philanthropic Order in Cleveland, 1896-1920
	Racism at High Tide: Cleveland, 1915-1920
	Additional Reading
	Epilogue: New England and the Western Reserve in the Nineteenth Century: Some Suggestions
Contributors and Editors
Index