Life, liberty and death on the Appalachian frontier
Tells the story of the people who ventured through the mountains and forests and along the rivers of the Appalachian frontier in Pennsylvania and New York during the 18th century, It focuses on a multi-cultural society--Native Americans dispossessed of their land in Pennsylvania and New York, the di...
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Morgantown, PA :
Masthof Press,
[2024]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Life, liberty and death on the Appalachian frontier / |c Robert B. Swift. |
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| 300 | |a xiv, 219 pages : |b illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a Tells the story of the people who ventured through the mountains and forests and along the rivers of the Appalachian frontier in Pennsylvania and New York during the 18th century, It focuses on a multi-cultural society--Native Americans dispossessed of their land in Pennsylvania and New York, the diplomats Conrad Weiser and Shikellamy on a peace mission to the Iriquois capital of Onondaga, Scots-Irish emigrants building churches on the Susquehanna Valley frontier, nurse Charlotte Browne with the remnants of the British Army after the defeat of Gen. Edward Braddock, Mary Jemison, a Pennsylvania girl, transformed into a Seneca matron in the Genesee River Valley. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Introduction -- From Okehocking to the Cornplanter Tract -- The Onondaga-Philadelphia connection -- Squatters in the Susquehanna River Valley -- Cherokee Warriors on the Pennsylvania -- Job Chilloway and his world -- Seneca ordeal at Niagara. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z Pennsylvania. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z New York (State) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z Appalachian Region. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America |z Pennsylvania |x History |y 18th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America) |z New York (State) |x History |y 18th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America |z Appalachian Region |x History |y 18th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pennsylvania |x History |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a New York (State) |x History |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Appalachian Region |x History |y 18th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America) |z New York (State) |y 18th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America |z Pennsylvania |y 18th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a New York (State) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Pennsylvania |x History. | |
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