. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. TheSpanish traders in Mobile, since the English surrendered theIndian traffic in 1782, had never been able to keep it up tothe prosperous condition in which they received it: but such asit was they found the readiest channel for it in ascending theMobile and Alabama rivers, — sluggish streams that offered nogreat obstacles. By an upper affluent, the Tombigbee, theyreached a village of the Chickasaws near its source, and thence,by a three-m
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. TheSpanish traders in Mobile, since the English surrendered theIndian traffic in 1782, had never been able to keep it up tothe prosperous condition in which they received it: but such asit was they found the readiest channel for it in ascending theMobile and Alabama rivers, — sluggish streams that offered nogreat obstacles. By an upper affluent, the Tombigbee, theyreached a village of the Chickasaws near its source, and thence,by a three-mile portage through a region ceded for trading-posts by the treaty of Hopewell, they could get into the basinof the Tennessee. Thither passed trader and warrior withequal ease. Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee, coming Xote.—The opposite map, showing the country between Mobile and Pensacola and the Ten-nessee River, is a section of Samuel Lewiss Map of the United States, 382 UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST. from different directions, had often combined here for fatalforays along the Tennessee and Cumberland settlements, orhad scattered in scalping parties to appear and disappear ina night. The most restless of the savages were the Chicka-maugas, a small and independent band of Cherokees. youthfulbucks themselves, and likely to be joined at times by the rovingyoungsters of the other tribes. They had caused Colonel Mar-tin, in his efforts to keep the frontiers quiet, more anxiety thanany of the other tribes, and he had, under varying fortunes,advanced upon them and retired time and again. Of late,Knox, the secretary of war, had kept the local forces as muchon the defensive as could be done, in the hopes that the provo-cations to war would cease. It was the hostility of this ruthlessband, after Sevier had lost his hold upon the abortive Franklincommonwealth, which had induced the settlers south of theHolston and French Broad rivers to unite for protection
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