I'm currently reading "Crazy Horse and Custer."

It describes in an early chapter how Ohio was such a fertile area with incredible diversity and vast woodland habitat. When settlers arrived, the first thing they did was start removing the timber by cutting and burning.

This is the free, short preview on Scribd. Use the cursor at the bottom to move to Page 50 for the part about how they cleared Ohio.

https://www.scribd.com/read/2280061...-Parallel-Lives-of-Two-American-Warriors

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