The Winning of the West Vol. III (in four volumes): The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790

During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the worlds waste spaces has been not only the most striking feature in the worlds history but also the event of all others most far-reaching in its effects and its importance. --Theodore Roosevelt The Winning of the West Vol. IThe Winning of the West Vol. III--The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790 (1889) is the third part of Theodore Roosevelts four-volume exciting saga about the settling of the American West. Many considered this Roosevelts most important book.Volume III focuses on the continued westward movement of the first settlers to the Northwest and Southwest their involvement in the American Revolution and their fights with Indians in the aftermath of the Revolution.