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Title: Centennial history and handbook of Indiana; the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Cottman, George S. (George Streiby), 1857-1941 Hyman, Max R. (Max Robinson), 1859-1927
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Publisher: Indianapolis, M. R. Hyman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n of the Wabashvalley, and while French life there, from theestablishment of the first posts in the first halfof the eighteenth century till the American in-vasion early in the nineteenth, affords a pic-turesque and romantic preliminary chapter to ourhistory, it can scarcely be called an integral partof it, and its influence in modifying our develop-ment is scarcely appreciable. The story ofIndiana as a State is a story of AmericanizedAnglo-Saxon stock pure and simple. The iso-lated, straggling French life, little ethnologicalfragments, as it were, left stranded here far fromtheir kind, was not strong enough to tincture theincoming population with that wonderful Frenchrace persistence that is notable in Canada, and inshort time they were incontinently swallowed up. It can be said, however, that the previousFrench settlement at Vincennes determined thestarting point of the American occupancy, andthe beginning place of Indiana politics. Thetreaty of Greenville, in 1795. secured from the
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12 CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA Indians, along with certain strategic points on theWabash river and a large tract at the falls of theOhio, for George Rogers Clark and his soldiers,the lands adjacent to the post of St. Vincennes,to which the Indian title had already been extin-guished. This reservation, which was ratherindefinite as to boundaries, in turn determinedthe first of the series of Indian purchases thatultimately comprised the whole State. By atreaty consummated in 1803 William Henry Har-rison secured an extension of the 1795 reserva-tion, with denned boundaries, that reached somefifty miles westward from Vincennes. This tractwas the first part of the new territory to be sur-veyed by the rectangular system adopted by theUnited States government,* and was the first tobe thrown open for general settlement. This, andthe existence of Vincennes as the one town inthe territory that was to be the future Indiana,logically determined the location of the territorialseat o

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