The Crossing, a novel by Winston Churchill, presented by Project Gutenberg

About this eBook

Author

Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947

Title

The Crossing

Credits

Produced by Charles Keller, David Widger, and Robert Homa

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818 -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

388

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/388

Release Date

October 19, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Crossing
2. 2.WINSTON CHURCHILL
3. 3.CONTENTS — THE CROSSING
4. 4.BOOK I. THE BORDERLAND
5. 5.CHAPTER I — The Blue Wall
6. 6.CHAPTER II — Wars and Rumors of Wars
7. 7.CHAPTER III — Charlestown
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — Temple Bow
9. 9.CHAPTER V — Cram's Hell
10. 10.CHAPTER VI — Man proposes, but God disposes
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — In Sight of the Blue Wall once more
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII — The Nollichucky Trace
13. 13.CHAPTER IX — On the Wilderness Trail
14. 14.CHAPTER X — Harrodstown
15. 15.CHAPTER XI — Fragmentary
16. 16.CHAPTER XII — The Campaign begins
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII — Kaskaskia
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV — How the Kaskaskians were made Citizens
19. 19.CHAPTER XV — Days of Trial
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI — Davy goes to Cahokia
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII — The Sacrifice
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII — “An' ye had been where I had been”
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX — The Hair Buyer Trapped
24. 24.CHAPTER XX — The Campaign ends
25. 25.BOOK II. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
26. 26.CHAPTER I — In the Cabin
27. 27.CHAPTER II — “The Beggars are come to Town”
28. 28.CHAPTER III — We go to Danville
29. 29.CHAPTER IV — I cross the Mountains once more
30. 30.CHAPTER V — I meet an Old Bedfellow
31. 31.CHAPTER VI — The Widow Brown's
32. 32.CHAPTER VII — I meet a Hero
33. 33.CHAPTER VIII — To St. Louis
34. 34.CHAPTER IX — “Cherchez la Femme”
35. 35.CHAPTER X — The Keel Boat
36. 36.CHAPTER XI — The Strange City
37. 37.CHAPTER XII — Les Îles
38. 38.CHAPTER XIII — Monsieur Auguste entrapped
39. 39.CHAPTER XIV — Retribution
40. 40.BOOK III. LOUISIANA
41. 41.CHAPTER I — The Rights of Man
42. 42.CHAPTER II — The House above the Falls
43. 43.CHAPTER III — Louisville celebrates
44. 44.CHAPTER IV — Of a Sudden Resolution
45. 45.CHAPTER V — The House of the Honecombed Tiles
46. 46.CHAPTER VI — Madame la Vicomtesse
47. 47.CHAPTER VII — The Disposal of the Sieur de St. Gré
48. 48.CHAPTER VIII — At Lamarque's
49. 49.CHAPTER IX — Monsieur le Baron
50. 50.CHAPTER X — The Scourge
51. 51.CHAPTER XI — “In the Midst of Life”
52. 52.CHAPTER XII — Visions, and an Awakening
53. 53.CHAPTER XIII — A MYSTERY
54. 54.CHAPTER XIV — “To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”
55. 55.CHAPTER XV — An Episode in the Life of a Man
56. 56.AFTERWORD
57. 57.Transcriber Notes

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