the early settlers
in the Back Country by one of themselves. J. F. D. Smyth, "Tour in the
United States of America," 2 vols. London, 1784. Minute descriptions of
the Back Country and interesting pictures of the life of the settlers;
biased as to political views by Royalist sympathies.

William H. Foote, "Sketches of North Carolina," New York, 1846. See
Foote also for history of the first Presbyterian ministers in the Back
Country. As to political history, inaccurate.

Early History And Exploration

J. S. Bassett (editor), "The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of
Westover." New York, 1901. A contemporary record of early Virginia.

Thomas Walker, "Journal of an Exploration in the Spring of the Year
1750." Boston, 1888. The record of his travels by the discoverer of
Cumberland Gap.

William M. Darlington (editor), "Christopher Gist's Journals."
Pittsburgh, 1893. Contains Gist's account of his surveys for the Ohio
Company, 1750.

C. A. Hanna, "The Wilderness Trail," 2 vols. New York, 1911. An
exhaustive work of research, with full accounts of Croghan and Findlay.
See also Croghan's and Johnson's correspondence in vol. VII, New York
Colonial Records.

James Adair, "The History of the American Indians," etc. London, 1775.
The personal record of a trader who was one of the earliest explorers
of the Alleghanies and of the Mississippi region east of the river; a
many-sided work, intensely interesting.

C. W. Alvord, "The Genesis of the Proclamation of 1763." Reprinted from
Canadian Archives Report, 1906. A new and authoritative interpretation.
In this connection see also the correspondence between Sir William
Johnson and the Lords of Trade in vol. VII of New York Colonial Records.

Justin Winsor, "The Mississippi Basin. The Struggle in America between
England and France." Cambridge, 1895. Presents the results of exhaustive
research and the coordination of facts by an historian of broad
intellect and vision.

"Colonial and State Records of North Carolina." 30 vols. The chief
fountain source of the early history of North Carolina and Tennessee.

W. H. Hoyt, "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence." New York,
1907. This book presents the view generally adopted by historians, that
the alleged Declaration of May 20, 1775, is spurious.

Justin Winsor (editor), "Narrative and Critical History of America." 8
vols. (1884-1889). Also "The Westward Movement." Cambridge, 1897. Both
works of incalculable value to the stu