Expansion into Connecticut Western Reserve

About the Book

What prompted the colonists to move to the new, wild, and unfamiliar territory in northeastern Ohio that would become known as the Connecticut Reserve? How did they get this far inland? What happened to the people indigenous to the area before the colonists expanded westward? How did the area come to be in the first place? This book provides some possible answers to those questions.

About the Author

Arthur Bauman was born in Youngstown, Ohio, received a degree in Geology and Anthropology from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in 1977. He is an engineer for Kiewit Western Construction, a position that has allowed him to travel extensively throughout the United States.

Bauman is an avid history buff and wherever he works, he looks for the footprints of history that played a vital role in the development of this country.

His previous books include “Life and Times of Oliver Hazard Perry,” which is about one episode of the War of 1812 during the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry was the person who penned the now-famous line: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”

Bauman also wrote and published “The Adventures of Captain John Smith,” which covers Smith’s adventures into the obscure area of the Carpathian Mountains in the Hungarian Alps in Southeastern Europe, an area known as Transylvania. Smith would later make his way to North America where he was involved with the Virginia Colony Land Company, and instrumental in the formation of Jamestown Colony.