The Revolution on the Appalachian Frontier

1. The Patriotic Legend--The "Over-Mountain Men" and King's Mountain
2. The Messy Reality
   1. American Political Ideals Shared by Back Country Settlers
      1. Personal Independence
      2. Social Improvement
   2. Translation Into Politics
      1. Eastern Settlements--The British Threat
      2. Back Country Settlements--Multiple Threats
         1. Tidewater Elites--The Regulator Legacy
         2. Native Peoples--The Mother Country as Protector
   3. The Course of Events
      1. Civil War in the Back Country
      2. The Cherokee Question
         1. Settler Encroachment--Speculation Again--Richard Henderson
            1. Watauga Settlement
            2. Transylvania--Treaty of 1775
         2. British Restrictions
            1. Proclamation Line of 1763
            2. Alliance With Cherokees
         3. The Second Cherokee War, 1776-1777
            1. Cherokee Defeat and Exile
            2. Loyalists Discredited
      3. The British "Southern Strategy," 1780-1781--Its Failure
3. The Legacy of the Revolution