@book{11, keywords = {Native Americans, Roman Catholics, French and Indian War, Braddock Expedition, Battle of Ft. Necessity, Battle of the Monongahela, Queen Alliquippa (c. 1670s/1700s-1754), Ohio Company, George Washington (1732-99), Edward Braddock (1695-1755), prophets, Shingas (fl. 1740-63), Thomas Dunbar (unknown-1767), pioneers, romantic relationships, immigrants, Irish Americans, priests, Protestants}, author = {Solomon Secondsight}, title = {The Wilderness: or, The Youthful Days of Washington}, abstract = {Follows an Irish family from Ulster struggling on the frontier at the Forks of the Ohio. In a subplot George Washington, who is passing through on his historic mission of 1753, falls in love with a Pittsburgh maiden named Maria Frazier. When she refuses him, Washington rededicates himself to passion for his country.}, year = {1823}, pages = {521 p.}, publisher = {E. Bliss & E. White}, address = {New York}, note = {Solomon Secondsight is a pseudonym of James McHenry
(1785-1845). Lawrenceville is referred to as Shannopin Town, as it was then known.}, language = {English}, }