Savage Spring: 1774 and the Mob Violence in the Upper Ohio River Valley
PART I – Origins of Crisis – The Long Road to 1774
From nearly two decades prior to 1774 turning deadly, the Ohio Valley cracked as treaties failed, settlers trespassed in the name of opportunity, and grief turning to vengeance. Part I traces the slow descent into frontier gothic.
PART 2 – Gathering Storm: The Final Years Before the Break
Part II charts the collapse of order in the early 1770s, when trade gave way to deceit, land claims multiplied without limit, and the Vandalia scheme exposed the empire’s inability to control its own frontier.
PART 3- War’s Threshold
Part III tells the story of how a frontier already stretched thin finally snapped. Rumor became strategy, speculation became sovereignty, and fear, long simmering beneath the surface, took command of the Ohio Valley.
PART 4 – The Geography of Fear
Part IV concludes the Savage Springs series as fear and vengeance stalks the frontier.