Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.
Contents
Chapters : The First Settlers / Clash of Cultures / Revolution in The Ohio Country / The Road to HellFallen Timbers / Ohio Fever / Early Settlements / Farm Country / The Frontier People / The Religious Frontier / Confederacy and War / Farmers: First and Last / Settled Community
Summary
"R. Douglas Hurt's book on the frontier period ...begins in the late 1500's with conflict between the Iroquois confederation and the Erie Indians. Shawnees, Wyandots, and other Native American groups complicated the picture, and the arrival of the French in the mid-1600s produced an extremely complex mix of accomodation, conflict, warfare, and mutual economic advantage. Still more players - the British by 1750 and the newly independent Americans after 1775 - muddied matters even further. Hurt introduces us to the great Indian diplomat Pontiac, who led a nearly successful defense against British aggression in 1764; to the Indian killer Jeffrey Amherst; to Daniel Boone and the American soldiers George Rogers Clark and "Mad" Anthony Wayne; to dozens of speculators and settlers who swooped down upon Ohio from the 1780's on, people such as Ebenezer Zane of Zane's Trace and Zanesville; to Shakers and Quakers; to Tecumseh's resistance of 1811; and finally to fugitive African American slaves and immigrant canal-builders."
York County history in print : a selected list of references, published and unpublished, pertaining to the history of York County, its people and institutions
Chapters: EARLY STARTS (the first attempts at organized education) // NINETEENTH CENTURY IDEALISM (the effort to design and build the perfect school) // THE AMISH ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE // THE TEACHER // SCHOOL BOOK // TEACHING APPARATUS // DESKS AND CHAIRS // RULES AND REGULATIONS
The history of my travels : through the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-393) and index.
Contents
The birth of American freedom -- To call it freedom -- An empire of liberty -- The boundaries of freedom in the young republic -- A new birth of freedom -- Liberty of contract and its discontents -- Progressive freedom -- The birth of civil liberities -- The New Deal and the redefinition of freedom -- Fighting for freedom -- Cold War freedom -- Sixties freedom -- Conservative freedom.
Vol. 1--American Axe--American Pewter Molds--Antiques in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Architecture--Art of Blacksmithing--Aunt Lydia--Bells and Bell Towers--Benjamin Harbeson, Coppersmith--Benjamin Harbeson and the Golden Teakettle--Bread and Ovens--Britannia--Butter Molds--Buying Pewter--Cast Steel--Casting Pewter Spoons--Church Architecture in Lancaster County--Church Pewter--Collectible Axes--Colonial Craftsmen--Cooking up a Storm--Coppersmithing in America--Coppersmithing in early America--Decorated Chests in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country--Domestic Architecture in Lancaster County--Early American Brass and Copper--Early American Brass Andirons--Early American Fireplaces--Early Gunmaking--Folk Art in Metals--Folk Art in Metals-a Deliberate Art--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Handcrafts in Lancaster County-Buildings and Books--Handcrafts in Lancaster County--Guns and Axes--Handmade Conestoga Wagon--Hattie Brunner--Himmelreich Collection--Historic American Bells--Historic House Hardware--How to identify the Pennsylvania Rifle--Hunting for Hatchets--In search of Folk Art--Jacob Dickert, Rifle Maker--Kentucky Rifle--Kentucky Rifle: Scuttlebutt--Literature on Log Architecture--Locksmiths and Locks--Moravian Architecture in Bethlehem--Names behind Pennsylvania's Important Pewter Heritage--Notes for Collectors of Early American Copper--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania Folk Art--Pennsylvania-German Schranks--Pennsylvania Pewterers--Peter Getz of Lancaster--Peter Gonter, Lancaster Gunsmith--Pewter--Pewter Spoon Molds--Pewter Spoons--Philadelphia Butter--Punched Tinware--Queen Anne Pewter Teapots--Rarity Counts in Copper--Remarks on Iron Collecting--Riddle of Two Front Doors-Rifles in Berks County--Silversmithing--Simon Pennock, Pewter Maker--Some Notes on Axes--Stills in Early Pennsylvania--Summerhouse--Sycamores in Dutchland--Teatime--Things have changed--Tinsmith--Unique Dutch Barn--Village Blacksmith--Warming Pans: Early Bedwarmers--Where do Antiques come from?
Vol.2: American Copper Teakettle--American Fowling Piece--American Pewter of the Eighteenth Century--American Pewter: Queen Anne Style--Amish Way of Life--Andirons--Andirons--Antiques in Lancaster County--Art of Early American Blacksmiths--Blacksmith's Art--Butterprint in Early America--Cast-Iron Stoves of Pennsylvania--Casting a Pewter Spoon--Charm of Cast Iron--Church Pewter--Collecting Antique Iron Objects--Copper--Coppersmithing in 18th Century America--Dowsers and Spring Houses--Early American Metalwork--Early Pewter was produced by Molds--18th-Century Iron Furnaces--Fireplace Accessories--German Chevron Doors in Lancaster County--Herr House: A Gem of Domestic Architecture--Kauffman Treasures in unique N.H. Show--Lancaster County Amish--Letter to Henry--Making Objects of Copper in 18th-Century Pennsylvania--Making of a Museum--Mennonites: Religious Exiles, Fine Needleworkers--Metals: The Craftsmen--Pennsylvania Copper Teakettle--Pennsylvania-German Schrank--Pickers and Pewter--Products of the Brass Founder: Molds for Casting Objects of Pewter--Schranks and Schrank Hunting--Silver in the New World--Silver Teapots & Coffeepots--Tinware--Training the Apprentice Coppersmith--Why Antique Copper?--Henry J. Kauffman: Collector, Author, and Craftsman.
This is the sequel to the author's first book about the Underground Railroad. It follows the routes north, south, east and west from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and tells the story of its "conductors", men and women who helped slaves escape to freedom. Nicely illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. [from Amazon.com]
