The extraordinary little backwoods state of Franklin began and ended a career unique in our annals.

But the current, though eddying and sluggish, set towards Union.

By 1790 a firm government had been established west of the mountains, and the trans-Alleghany commonwealths had become parts of the Federal Union.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
SAGAMORE HILL, LONG ISLAND, _October_, 1894.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I.THE INRUSH OF SETTLERS, 1784-1787 II.

THE INDIAN WARS, 1784-1787 III.

THE NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI; SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS AND SPANISH INTRIGUES, 1784-1788 IV.