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The forest and the fort / Hervey Allen.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 3501 .F674 A45 1943
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949.
- Series:
- Disinherited ; bk. 1.
- [The disinherited ; bk. 1]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- United States.
- Shawnee Indians--Fiction.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, Modern 1601-.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift Cyril Cleureus April 6, 1956.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 344 pages : color frontispiece (portrait) 1 illustration ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rinehart, Inc., 1943.
- Summary:
- Salathiel Albine, a white child who has lived with the Shawnee Indians from a young age chooses to reidentify with his white parentage after spending some time with a preacher who helps him relearn English. Story points up to cultural differences which made Indian-White conflict inevitable as settlers pressed westward.
- Notes:
- Part 1 of v. 1 of a projected historical novel which will be published in 2 v. under the title: I, Slyvania, II, Richfield springs, and finally in a single volume under the title The disinherited.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949. Forest and the fort.
- OCLC:
- 9283754
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