This textbook is the first volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers: the spread of the English-speaking peoples; the French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775; the Appalachian Confederacies, 1765-1775; the Algonquins of the Northwest, 1769-1774; the backwoodsmen of the Alleghanies, 1769-1774; Boon and the Long Hunters and their hunting in no-man's land, 1769-1774; Sevier, Robertson, and the Watuga Commonwealth, 1769-1774; and Lord Dunmore's War, 1774. Detailed information on source documents is provided.