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- ↑ Roughly the area west of the Proclamation Line of 1763 and east of the Mississippi River
- ↑ Refers to the third edition
Citations
- ↑ Rundell, Walter (1979). "Reviewed work: The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850, Malcolm J. Rohrbough". The American Historical Review. 84 (4): 1150–1151. doi:10.2307/1904793. JSTOR 1904793.
- ↑ Davis, James E. (1979). "Reviewed work: The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850, Malcolm J. Rohrbough". The Journal of American History. 66 (2): 393–394. doi:10.2307/1900921. JSTOR 1900921.
- ↑ Rohrbough, M. J. (2008), Trans-Appalachian Frontier (3rd ed.), University of Iowa Press, retrieved 23 July 2023
- ↑ "Malcolm J. Rohrbough", The National Geographic Society, retrieved 22 July 2023
- ↑ "Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Professor Emeritus", University of Iowa, retrieved 22 July 2023