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Crossroads: Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania 1720–1829: The Library of Western Pennsylvania History

Autor John W. Harpster
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 1960
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780822960881
ISBN-10: 0822960885
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria The Library of Western Pennsylvania History


Recenzii

“Reading Crossroads is like meeting a score of travelers returned from strange lands and listening while each tells his own story of his adventures. it is a kind of American Cantebury Tales, and the tales are true.”
—Neil H. Swanson

Notă biografică

John W. Harpster was curator of the museum (1963-1965) of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and Research Fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey, 1933-1935.