西部戦線(せいぶせんせん、英: Western theater)は、アメリカ独立戦争の間にアパラチア山脈の西側の地域(後の北西部領土)とケンタッキー、テネシー、およびミズーリで行われた一連の戦闘である。この戦線では、デトロイトに駐屯していたイギリス軍と北米インディアンが同盟を組み、オハイオ川南東のアメリカ開拓者達との戦いが行われた。アメリカ合衆国の独立との連動性が希薄な世界になっており、1783年のアメリカとイギリスの停戦後もインディアンと開拓者の抗争が続いた。
James, James Alton. George Rogers Clark papers. 2 vols.
Kellogg, Louise P., ed. Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, 1778-1779. Madison: State Society of Wisconsin, 1916.
Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781. Originally published Madison, Wisconsin, 1917. Reprinted Baltimore: Clearfield, 2003. ISBN 0-8063-5191-8.
Thwaites, Reuben G. and Louise P. Kellogg, eds. Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio 1777-1778. Orig pub. 1912, Kraus reprint, Millwood, NY 1977.
The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777. Originally published 1908, Kennikat reprint, Port Washington, NY 1970.
論文
Belue, Ted Franklin. "Crawford's Sandusky Expedition". The American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Encyclopedia 1: 416-420. Ed. Richard L. Blanco. New York: Garland, 1993. ISBN 0-8240-5623-X.
Calloway, Colin G. "Captain Pipe." American National Biography. 4: 368-69. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-512783-8.
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Quaife, Milo Milton. "The Ohio Campaigns of 1782". Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17, no. 4 (March 1931): 515-529.
書籍
Bakeless, John. Background to Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1957. Bison Book printing, 1992; ISBN 0-8032-6105-5. Popular history which portrays Clark as a military genius who conquered the Old Northwest. The 1992 introduction by historian James P. Ronda reflects later doubts about this traditional view of Clark.
Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-47149-4 (hardback).
Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8018-4609-9.
Downes, Randolph C. Council Fires on the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley until 1795. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940. ISBN 0-8229-5201-7 (1989 reprint).
Grenier, John. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-84566-1.
Hurt, R. Douglas. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-253-33210-9 (hardcover); ISBN 0-253-21212-X (1998 paperback).
Kenton, Edna. Simon Kenton: His Life and Period, 1755-1836. Originally published 1930; reprinted Salem, NH: Ayer, 1993.
Nelson, Larry L. A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-87338-620-5 (hardcover).
Nester, William. The Frontier War for American Independence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. ISBN 0-8117-0077-1.
Smith, Thomas H., ed. Ohio in the American Revolution: A Conference to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Ft. Gower Resolves. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1976.
Sosin, Jack M. The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763-1783. New York: Holt, 1967.
Van Every, Dale. A Company of Heroes: The American Frontier, 1775-1783. New York: Morrow, 1962. Popular history with emphasis on George Rogers Clark and Joseph Brant.