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Excerpt from State Teachers College Bulletin, Vol. 19: July, 1931 The Frontier Women To portray the sacrifices of the women of the frontier and the part played by them in the making of our nation this film re -_creates the story of the settlement of Watauga in the Tennessee mountains in 1780. Cornwallis had sent Ferguson -to destroy the power cf the frontier. Patriots. John Service and his mountain men set out from Watauga to oppose him. The wo men of the settlement, left with the old men and boys refuse to recall their warriors in the face of an impending Indian att: .ack Service defeats Ferguson at King's Mountain, the turning point of the Revolution in the west. On their return several of the men are killed by Cherokees. The joy of the Watauga women is turned to grief. _aft_er but two hours at home Service and his mountain men again swing into their saddles, determined to remove forever the menace of the Indians. (3 reels) Alexander Hamilton A biographical film revealing Hamilton's work during the crucial period immediately following the War of Independence in stabilizing the currency of the new government and formulating its financial system He is first seen in Morristown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.