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  Hamilton, Allan McLane. The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton: Based Chiefly upon Family Letters and Other Documents. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911.


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  ———. Wilderness for Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush. New York: Hastings House, 1956.

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  Hildreth, Samuel P. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio: With Narratives of Incidents and Occurrences in 1775. Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., 1852.

  ———. Contributions to the Early History of the Northwest Including the Moravian Mission in Ohio. Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1864.

  ———. Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Hildreth Family: From the Year 1652 Down to the Year 1840. Marietta, Ohio, 1840.

  ———. Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. Clearfield Publishers, n.d.

  ———. Observations on the Bituminous Coal Deposits of the Valley of the Ohio and the Accompanying Rock Strata. Digitized book from University of Chicago, 2011.

  ———. Pioneer History: Being an Account of the First Examinations of the Ohio Valley, and the Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory. Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Co., 1848.

  Hill, Norman Newell. History of Knox County, Ohio. Mount Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham Co., 1881.

  Hinsdale, B. A. The Old Northwest: The Beginnings of Our Colonial System. New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1888.

  ———. The Ordinance of 1787: Origin, Features, and Results. An Address Delivered Before the Ohio State Teachers Association, Akron, Ohio, June 29, 1887. Akron, OH: Educational Monthly, 1887.

  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883.

  Hodgson, Adam. Letters from North America. Vol. 2. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1824.

  Hogeland, William. Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the United States Army and the Invasion That Opened the West. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018.

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  Hulbert, Archer Butler. The Ohio River: A Course of Empire. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906.

  ———. The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company. Marietta, OH: Marietta Historical Commission, 1917.

  ———. Waterways of Westward Expansion: The Ohio River and Its Tributaries, Historic Highways of America Series. Cleveland: Arthur Clark, 1903.

  Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. New York: Dover, 1993.

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  ———. Society in America. Vol. 2. London: Saunders & Otley, 1837.

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