Told from the viewpoint of the Indians, this account of Indian-white relations during the second half of the eighteenth century is an exciting addition to the historical literature of Pennsylvania.
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Downes was further angered by what he perceived as deliberate efforts to delay publication.
Kefauver, editor of the OSU Press, agreed.
George Harding III, nephew to the former president, claimed the family had the right to edit based on the doctrine of literary rights, and Weldon A.
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Downes was angered by what he believed to be censorship, when several Harding family members were allowed to edit the work prior to publication.
The Ohio State University Press published his 700 page book in 1970.
Downes was among the first scholars to study the Harding Papers.
Largely through his efforts, the Harding Papers, previously kept inaccessible by the Harding Memorial Association, were opened to researchers as part of the collection of the Ohio Historical Society.
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From the mid-1950s through 1970, Downes concentrated his research on the life of Warren G.
In 1946 he published his "Preliminary Report on the Navajo" for the New York Association on American Indian Affairs, resulting in his employment as a consultant, revising a ten-year plan for the Navajo Indians for the Secretary of the Interior. (1955), The Evolution of Ohio County Boundaries (1970), and The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1865-1920 (1970).
His books include: Frontier Ohio (1934), Guidebook of Historic Sites in Western Pennsylvania (1938), Council Fires on the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley until 1795 (1940) , Ashland\'s Eternity Acres (1942), The Conquest, Beginning to 1812 (1948), Canal Days, 1812-1850 (1949), Lake Port, 1850-1875 (1950), the 3 volume History of Lake Shore Ohio (1952), Industrial Beginnings, 1875-1900 (1954), The Maumee Valley, U.
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A.
Harding in the mid-1950s.
He specialized first in Native American and frontier Ohio history and later in Northwest Ohio and the Maumee Valley, before turning to the study of Warren G.
During his career, Downes published more than 45 articles and 13 books.
He continued as editor of the journal until shortly before his death.
From 1947 until 1960, Downes served in a dual capacity as University of Toledo faculty member and director of the Historical Society of Northwest Ohio (now Maumee Valley Historical Society) and editor if its journal, the Northwest Ohio Quarterly.
He lectured at Smith College from 1943 until 1946, when he joined the University of Toledo.
Downes worked for the Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration in Akron and Cincinnati, and as a state research supervisor in Columbus.
During the early 1940s, Dr.
A year later, he went to Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, where he taught until 1940.
Downes left Pittsburgh in 1936 to take a position at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
He won promotion to associate professor in 1932.
During his years at Pittsburgh, he served as a fellow of the Social Science Research Council and a research associate with the historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
Ohio State awarded him his doctorate in 1929 and he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh.
He taught at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, from 1923 to 1927, when he took a position at The Ohio State University and began work on his Ph.
D. from the University of Wisconsin.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1923, and then earned an M.
A.
Randolph Chandler Downes taught at the University of Toledo for 25 years from 1946 to 1971.
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For nearly half a century the Indian maintained a precarious hold upon Western Pennsylvania by playing one white faction off against the anther, first the French against the British, then the British against the Americans.
From the beginning, when the white traders followed the first Shawnee hunters into Pennsylvania, until the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, the region\'s history was the history of the relationship between the Indians and the whites.
Told from the viewpoint of the Indians, this account of Indian-white relations during the second half of the eighteenth century is an exciting addition to the historical literature of Pennsylvania
