Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, at Williamsburg by the University of North Carolina Press
Date of Publication
1959.
Physical Description
334 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography.
Summary
George Croghan (1718 to 1782) -land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia attic. In his review of this book, Milton W. Hamilton wrote, "From the beginning of the French and Indian War, when he was with Washington at Fort Necessity and with Braddock before Fort Duquesne, until the Revolution, he was in the midst of all frontier troubles, all schemes of expansion, and had a finger in colonial politics."
