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Old Northwest

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Old Northwest

Old Northwest
n
(Placename) (in the early US) the land between the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and the Ohio River. Awarded to the US in 1783, it was organized into the Northwest Territory in 1787 and now forms the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota


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9780788447761 Reconstructed forts of the Old Northwest Territory.
6103 Finally a publisher has the foresight to republish this landmark study of the French Regime in Wisconsin and the old Northwest as told from a "western" point of view.
They cover a prodigious amount of travel: while his compatriots were fighting the war, Cooke drove through (or on his second tour, took public transport through) the Northeast, Washington, the South, the West, the plains states and the old Northwest.
 
 
 
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