Crossroads : Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania 1720-1829 / edited by John W. Harpster ; illustrations by Harvey Cushman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harpster, John W., editor.

Cushman, Harvey, illustrator.

Series:

Regional Series.

Regional Series

Standardized Title:

Pen pictures of early western Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--Description and travel.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1938]

Summary:

Crossroads is a collection of thirty-seven colorful and perceptive writings left by early travelers and settlers who ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains. Traders, surveyors, soldiers, preachers, and immigrants, some of them well known and some obscure, tell of the loneliness, terror, and beauty of the frontier.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I - FRANCE AND ENGLAND CLAIM THE OHIO COUNTRY

II - A FRENCH SOLDIER LOOKS AT THE WEST

III - INDIAN CAPTIVES

IV - THE BRITISH FRONTIER ADVANCES

V - COMMERCE, THE HANDMAID OF PEACE

VI - FORT PITT HOLDS OUT

VII - ITINERANTS IN RELIGION AND TRADE

VIII - GATEWAY TO THE WEST

IX - SOLDIER LIFE IN THE WEST

X - SETTLERS BOUND FOR OHIO AND KENTUCKY

XI - FRONTIER LIFE

XII - LAND TO THE NORTH

XIII - THE NEW CENTURY

XIV - THE GREAT MIGRATION

XV - PITTSBURGH IN 1829

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 1748 - 1830

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780822975205

0822975203

OCLC:

1419871945