GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Selected Papers From The 1987 And 1988 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences

IN REPLY REFER TO:

United States Department of the Interior NATIONAL PARK SERVICE GEORGE ROGERS CLARK NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK 401 SOUTH SECOND STREET VINCENNES, INDIANA 47591

Dear Reader:

This is the third volume of selected papers from the George Rogers Clark Trans Appalachian Frontier History Conference published by Vincennes University and Eastern National Park & Monument Association. It contains six interesting papers presented at the 1987 and 1988 conferences, and we are proud to be able to offer it to you for your edification and enjoyment.

We also are very proud of the history conference itself. Inaugurated in 1983, it has become the foremost conference for the study of the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Co-sponsored by Vincennes University and the National Park Service, it was established to encourage research into the frontier period and to provide a forum for scholars to share their findings with interested professional and amateur historians alike. Over the past seven years, scholars from more than a dozen states have contributed to the success of this conference by presenting papers of interest and importance. Many of these papers appear in this and in previous volumes of selected papers from the George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conference.

We hope you enjoy reading the papers in this bcok, and that, as a result, you will gain a better understanding of the people, places and events that shaped the history of our nation and the Trans-Appalachian frontier.

Sincerely,

Terry M. DiMattio
Superintendent