Author: AlbertClarksonAlbertClarkson Date: Feb 26, 2008 18:12
Reading Paul Johnson's "A History of the American People," I saw
mentioned that in the new founding American politics of the late
1700s, "There was a long and acrimonious row over the Virginia
backcountry--'that dark and bloody land' as it was (perhaps unfairly)
called...." In those days this "backcountry" was, of course, vast and
comprised the region that would later be Kentucky, Ohio and other
states in the Middle South and Midwest, then a comparatively uncharted
and violent place where settlers and Indians sometimes clashed. In
short, for the knowledgeable about history, "That dark and bloody
land" is known to have been an early and familiar description of The
Great Unknown to the Westward in America. Googling shows a handful of
references to the once-familiar description. If Bartlett were...
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