Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Before Ohio was a certainty, it was a frontier argument. Ohio begins at the river. In this brisk, eloquent sketch, Salmon P. Chase traces the forces that shaped a new state from the wilderness edge: competing empires, shifting borders, and the hard mechanics of land, law, and settlement.Written for nineteenth century ohio that still remembered its first clearings, this public domain classic history draws a steady line from northwest territory settlement through ohio territorial history to ohio statehood origins. Chase, later a national figure, brings a lawyer’s precision to names, dates, and institutions, setting the Northwest Ordinance alongside the everyday realities of the early ohio frontier: surveys, river routes, townships, courts, and the slow making of communities. He writes close to the sources and debates of his day, capturing the language of early state-building before later legends smoothed it out. It reads cleanly as frontier america history, yet stands up as a state history reference for local history researchers, genealogy and local history projects, and anyone tracking families and places across great lakes regional history.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this complete unabridged edition has been restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, equally at home with casual readers and classic-literature collectors. A quiet essential for home libraries and institutional collections, keeping a key chapter of Ohio and Great Lakes regional history close at hand for readers of local places, national change.
