Exploration and Colonization

7 Cherokee Delegates Visit LondonETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources and Student Activities

Cherokee Society

Key Words: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, customs, traditions

Life on the Tennessee Frontier

Key Words:  family life, farm life, community, religion

Longhunters and the Settlement of Tennessee

Key Words: Dr. Thomas Walker, Cumberland Gap, long hunters, Daniel Boone, Richard Henderson, Transylvania Purchase, Wilderness Road, William Bean, Thomas Sharpe Spencer

Tennessee Before European Arrival

Key Words:  Paleo Indians, Coats-Hines site, Archaic, Woodland, Old Stone Fort, Pinson Mounds, Mississippian, Chucalissa Mound

The French and Indian War and the Fort Loudoun Massacre

Key Words:  French and Indian War, Attakullakulla, Oconostota, Fort Loudoun Massacre


Exploration and Colonization ETHS Articles

Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road

Kincaid, Robert L. “The Wilderness Road in Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 20 (1948): 37-48.

Europeans and Native American Cooperation and Conflict

Connelly, Thomas Lawrence. “Indian Warfare on the Tennessee Frontier, 1776-1794: Strategy and Tactics.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 36 (1964): 3-22.

Franklin, W. Neil. “Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1673-1752.”The East Tennessee Society’s Publications 4 (1932): 3-21. 

Franklin, W. Neil. “Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1753-1775.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 22-38.

Rothrock, Mary U. “Carolina Traders Among the Overhill Cherokee, 1690-1760.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 1 (1929): 3-18.

Stone, Richard G., Jr. “Captain Paul Demere at Fort Loudoun, 1757-1760.” The East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 41 (1969): 17-32.

The Long Hunters and Other Mountain Explorers

Fink, Paul M. “Early Explorers in the Great Smokies.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 55-68.

Fink, Paul M. “Russell Bean, Tennessee’s First Native Son.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 37 (1965): 31-48.

 

Additional Related Articles:

Livingood, James W. “The Tennessee Valley in American History.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 21 (1949): 19-32.

Webb, William S. “The Prehistory of East Tennessee.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 8 (1936): 3-8.

Wilson, Samuel M. “Washington’s Relations to Tennessee and Kentucky.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 3-21.