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By Great Rivers: Lives on the Appalachian Frontier

By Great Rivers: Lives on the Appalachian Frontier

Swift, Robert

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Middle Atlantic

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ISBN10: 163500120X
ISBN13: 9781635001204
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 128
Language: English
By Great Rivers: Lives on the Appalachian Frontier tells the story of people who shaped events during a period of rapid political and social change in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States in the eighteenth century.
The several dozen individuals (men and women, Native Americans, colonial agents, missionaries, fur traders, Indian captives, surveyors) profiled here reflect a multi-cultural society that developed on that frontier.
Wars in the last half of this century posed a grave threat to this society. This book focuses on the Appalachian region--eastern and western Pennsylvania, western New York and Ohio--a vast wilderness expanse linked by the great rivers that served as corridors of travel in the eighteenth century.
Many key historic events occurred at the strategic forks of four rivers where these people lived or visited--the Forks of the Delaware (Easton, PA), Forks of the Susquehanna (Sunbury, PA), Forks of the Ohio (Pittsburgh, PA) and the Forks of the Muskingum (Coshocton, OH) and the Niagara River, pathway between the Great Lakes.
The book includes quotes from contemporary travelers, diarists and prominent figures like Benjamin Franklin to provide context to help readers understand the period.

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