Excerpt from The Winning of the West, Vol. 3: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 On the western frontier lay vast and fertile vacant Spaces; for the Americans had barely passed the threshold of the continent predestined to The West_ be the inheritance of their children and em Fron their children's children. For generations e the great feature in the nation's history, next only to the preservation of its national life, was to be its westward growth; and its distinguishing work was to be the settlement of the immense wilderness which stretched across to the Pacific. But before the land could be settled it had to be won. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.