Were they driven from their forests the peltry trade would decrease, and it is not impossible that worse savages would take refuge in them.' Much has been written about the stamp tax and the tea tax as causes of the American revolution, but this determination to confine the colonies to the Atlantic seaboard 'rendered the revolution inevitable.' [Footnote: Roosevelt's _The Winning of the West_, part i, p.

57.] In 1778, three years after the sword was drawn, when an American force under George Rogers Clark invaded the Indian country, England's weakly garrisoned posts, then by the Quebec Act under the government of Canada, were easily captured; and, when accounts came to be settled after the war, the entire hinterland south of the Great Lakes, from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, passed to the United States.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The main source of information regarding the siege of Detroit is the 'Pontiac Manuscript.' This work has been translated several times, the best and most recent translation being that by R.Clyde Ford for the Journal of _Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763_, edited by C.M.

Burton.
Unfortunately, the manuscript abruptly ends in the middle of the description of the fight at Bloody Run.
The following works will be found of great assistance to the student: Rogers's _Journals_; Cass's _Discourse before the Michigan Historical Society_; Henry's _Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories_; Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_ (the fullest and best treatment of the subject); Ellis's _Life of Pontiac, the Conspirator_ (a digest of Parkman's work); _Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians, 1764_ (authorship doubtful, but probably written by Dr William Smith of Philadelphia); Stone's _The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson_; Drake's _Indians of North America_; _Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico_ and _Handbook of Indians of Canada_; Ogg's _The Opening of the Mississippi_; Roosevelt's _The Winning of the West_; Carter's _The Illinois Country_; Beer's _British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765_; Adair's _The History of the American Indians_; the _Annual Register_ for the years 1763, 1764, and 1774; Harper's _Encyclopedia of United States History_; Pownall's _The Administration of the Colonies_; Bancroft's _History of the United States_; Kingsford's _History of Canada_; Winsor's _Narrative and Critical History of America_ and his _Mississippi Basin_; Gordon's _History of Pennsylvania_; Lucas's _A History of Canada, 1763-1812_; Gayarre's _History of Louisiana_; and McMaster's _History of the People of the United States_.
In 1766 there was published in London a somewhat remarkable drama entitled _Ponteach: or the Savages of America_.

A part of this will be found in the appendices to Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_.

Parkman suggests that Robert Rogers may have had a hand in the composition of this drama.
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