The great central figure in the conquest from the British of the country northwest of the river Ohio during the Revolutionary War was General George Rogers Clark, and any full account of that important and rar-reaching event is necessarily an account of the most material part of his life.

Preface: In collecting historical matter for a history of Indiana, which the author has been preparing for many years, his material has grown so voluminous on the subjects embraced in these volumes that the best use to make of it has been a grave question.