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The Ohio Frontier
Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology—the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others—are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization—and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers—hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants—established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their w...
Cuming's Tour to the Western Country
A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route.
Cuming's Tour to the Western Country
A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route.
Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South
DIVRich survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Extensive commentary on each building, with over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans. Bibliography. /div
Bail Piece
States that on June 4, 1799, Fortescue Cuming is delivered to bail at the suit of James Griffiths, of a plea of trespass on the case.
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A House Dividing
Comparing Virginia and Pennsylvania, Majewski explains how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy.
Keeping House
This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Many decades passed before a desolate and violent frontier was transformed into a stable region of farms and towns. Keeping House: Women’s Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850 tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes. Intrigued by late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks in the collection of the Histori...
