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Benjamin of Ohio: A Story of the Settlement of Marietta

Chapter 86: BOOKS CONSULTED IN WRITING BENJAMIN OF OHIO
By James Otis
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A young narrator recounts leaving New England with an organized land company to settle in the Ohio country, tracing the group's formation, surveying and purchase of territory, and the hardships of overland and river travel. The narrative details building a fortified riverside village, clearing land, erecting mills and community institutions, encounters and cautious diplomacy with Native peoples, and everyday trials of frontier life. Interwoven with practical descriptions are personal episodes of labor, friendship, moral lessons, and the boy's growing sense of responsibility as the settlement develops into a permanent town.

BOOKS CONSULTED IN WRITING BENJAMIN OF OHIO

Baldwin, James: Conquest of the Old Northwest. American Book Company.

Buel, Miss Rowena: Memoirs of Rufus Putnam. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Drake, Samuel Adams: Making of the Ohio Valley States. Charles Scribner's Sons.

Earle, Alice Morse: Home Life in Colonial Days. The Macmillan Company.

Ellet, Mrs.: Pioneer Women of the West. John C. Winston Company.

Elson, Henry William: History of the United States. The Macmillan Company.

Harper's Magazine: Vol. 71, p. 552.

Hildreth, S. P.: Pioneer History. H. W. Derby & Co.

Hinsdale, B. A.: The Old Northwest. Silver, Burdett & Co.

Howells, William Dean: Stories of Ohio. American Book Company.

Jones, N. E.: Squirrel Hunters of Ohio. Robert Clarke Company.

Mowry, William A.: American Pioneers. Silver, Burdett & Co.

Powell, Lyman P.: Historic Towns of Western States. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Roosevelt, Theodore: Winning of the West. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Thwaite, Reuben Gold: Early Western Travels (Buttrick). Arthur H. Clarke Company.

Walker, Charles M.: History of Athens County, Ohio. Robert Clarke Company.