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The Mississippi Question And The Problem Of Statehood In Kentucky., Harold J. Stipe
The Mississippi Question And The Problem Of Statehood In Kentucky., Harold J. Stipe
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The history of new state movements in America is always an absorbing study; the character of the settlers and the compelling factors that motivate them are revealed with startling clarity as the reader turns the pages back into the annals of the period. The history of America has been, in a large degree, says Frederick J. Turner, "the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development." In no state was the influence of the frontier advance upon political development …
The Kentucky-Tennessee Boundary Line., Charles Hugh Hardesty 1894-1955
The Kentucky-Tennessee Boundary Line., Charles Hugh Hardesty 1894-1955
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This dissertation is arranged in three parts. First is a bibliography of the material used in the study with a roster of the officials of each state that may have jurisdiction over any thing pertaining to the boundary line. Second is an account of the various efforts made by each of the states concerned to establish and confirm the line. Chapter one relates the efforts of the English Government to establish the line between Virginia and North Carolina. Chapter two is an account of the two states to establish the line, from the time they declared themselves free of English …