This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation.
Yet their lives would intersect in ways that would make independence and western settle.
William Croghan was an Irish immigrant with tight family ties to the British in America.
The two represented contrasting American experiences: famed military leader George Rogers Clark was from the Virginia planter class.
This dual biography focuses on the lives of two very different men who fought for and settled the American West and whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation