"This book describes 131 paths with maps, history, significant points along the way, and information on approximating the course of the trails by automobile. Five appendices trace other historically significant routes such as the Forbes Road and George Washington's1753 path to Fort LeBoeuf." [from the publisher]
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
xiii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"This classic study of the history of Pennsylvania's Indians, from the time of the European contact forward, was originally published in 1961. This accessible work explores the primary groups of Indian peoples most important to Pennsylvania's history-its most prevalent, primarily the Delaware or Lenni Lenape and the Susquehannock people, and the outside groups that had the largest impact upon Pennsylvania, primarily the neighboring Iroquois and refugee groups such as the Shawnee. The volume explores customs, governance, belief systems, conflict, migration, and policy, among many other topics. Sympathetic and balanced, this book has long been considered one of the best books on the Indian peoples of Pennsylvania." [from Amazon.com]
This is a social and political history of Pennsylvania written in 1962 by Dr. Paul A. W. Wallace historian and folklorist.From the book's cover: "In this authoritative and delightful book, a distinguished historian of the Keystone State tells the story of Pennsylvania from it's geological birth to the present. Here are the Susquehannock, Delaware and other indian Nations who found it such a pleasant place in which to live, and the Welsh, Irish, Scotch, German, Swedish and Finnish immigrants who, under the remarkable William Penn's Holy Experiment, flourished alongside their new neighbors.Here also are accounts of Pennsylvania's growth, its troubles and achievements: the French and Indian war; its role in the American Revolution and the formulation of a new government; mining and lumbering; canals and railroads; utopias and outlaws; iron and steel; art and architecture. And here are portraits of its most interesting citizens, from the great Penn himself to Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Milton Hershey, and many others."
