The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 418. $35.00.)
Writers and readers of frontier history have gravitated, for the most part, toward the more popular late nineteenth-century West. R. Douglas Hurt, an agricultural historian, has gone against popular trends of frontier study to revive the historically ignored Ohio country of early America. This region remains significant in ...