Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier - a review |
Ambiguous Legacy
William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, was an idealist. He sincerely believed that all men, no matter how different, could live together in peace, and he based the ...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:33:00 PST |
Simon Girty - two reviews |
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Wilderness: The True Story of Simon Girty : Renegade
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A Renegade Gets His Due
It is strangely appropriate that the single most accurate modern telling of the history of t...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:22:00 PST |
A Man of Distinction Among Them: Alexander McKee and the Ohio Country Frontier - a review |
A Remarkable Man Who Picked the Losing Side of History
Alexander McKee's legacy is a victim of the truism that history is written by the victors. His name is unknown to all but the specialist and af...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:09:00 PST |
Andrew Montour |
Andrew Montour (c.17001774), of both Native American and European ancestry, was one of the most important interpreters and negotiators in the Virginia and Pennsylvania backcountry in the 1750s and 17...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:02:00 PST |
George Croghan and the Westward Movement, 1741-1782 - a review |
A Forgotten Giant
It is one of the great vagaries of history that George Croghan did not become an American icon, but instead languishes in near complete obscurity. Few men in the Colonial per...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST |
Conrad Weiser |
Johann Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 July 13, 1760) was a German Pennsylvanian pioneer, farmer, monk, tanner, judge, and soldier. His most significant contributions, however, were as an inte...
Posted by Crown Indian Agents on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:53:00 PST |
