"Scholars working in the fields of archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it"-- Provided by publisher.

The true pioneers : a brief overview of prehistoric Native Americans in Ohio /Joseph A. M. Gingerich -- Situating settlement in Ohio : the eighteenth century from local and Atlantic perspectives / Cameron Shriver -- Who speaks in the name of the Miami Nation? / John Bickers -- Ohio, the Northwest Ordinance, and the constitutional foundations of the United States / Jessica Choppin Roney -- Selective migration and the production of Ohio's regional cultural landscapes : a genealogical geography / Timothy G. Anderson -- (Re)tracing Zane : Zane's Trace and production of space in the Ohio country / William M. Hunter -- Ice water baths and rising waters : Dudley Woodbridge Jr.'s commercial connections along the Ohio and its tributaries in the early republic / Kim M. Gruenwald -- Johnny Appleseed and apple cultures in early Ohio / William Kerrigan -- What if Manasseh Cutler were black? : the history of the diverse pioneers who created Ohio / Anna-Lisa Cox -- Federalist failure : conflict and disorder in the Northwest Territory / Joseph Thomas Ross -- Public education in the Old Northwest : legacies of Ohio's first land grant / Adam R. Nelson.