Excerpt from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio: Or Glimpses of Pioneer Life<br><br>At the close of the Revolution, the Eastern States were old and prematurely gray, and poverty, bankruptcy and starvation induced the patriotic soldiers to accept pay for their services in unsurveyed wild land in the N orth-west Ter ritory. The new acquisition was lauded as a country flowing with equivalents to milk and honey, and would sustain a large population, make delightful homes, and furnish an easily-ao quired subsistence.<br><br>As soon as the Indian dangers were no longer detrimental, the homeless poor, with guns, am munition and land certificates, flocked in from all quarters of the world, took possession of the country, and became the progenitors of a great and pre-eminent people - The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.