Excerpt from History of the Backwoods, or the Region of the Ohio: Authentic From the Earliest Accounts; Embracing Many Events, Notices of Prominent Pioneers, Sketches of Early Settlements, Etc., Etc., Etc Our endeavor has been to present these events, im bodied and arranged, in the order they occur. The motive to the undertaking has been a desire to sup ply a vacancy in the general history of the country, which may not have failed to be very generally remark ed. Much of our western history, it is known, has nev er been written, while the published portions, to a great degree, have not been collected. To accomplish these objects, therefore, has been the present attempt. How far we may have succeeded, remains with our readers to determine. 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.