@book{195, keywords = {Whiskey Rebellion, Native Americans, keelboats, pioneers, Conestoga wagons, Scots-Irish Americans, ministers, soldiers, John Neville (1731-1803), immigrants, Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816), Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), John Scull (1765-1828), James O'Hara (1752-1819), Tories, Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Monongahela rye, Scottish Americans, Modern Chivalry (1792), "Pittsburgh Gazette", Protestants}, author = {Leland D. [Dewitt] Baldwin}, title = {The Delectable Country}, abstract = {After a trip from New Orleans up the Mississippi and the Ohio, David Braddee, 19, pilots his foster father’s keelboat to a tough landing among the scattered cabins of Pittsburgh, where he stays and comes of age. “The ‘delectable country’ is a dual symbol—the goal of David's journeyings into the wilderness, and of his striving toward that ‘delectable country of the soul’ which Bunyan so happily christened,” says Western Pennsylvania Historical Review.}, year = {1939}, pages = {715 p.}, publisher = {Lee Furman, Inc.}, address = {New York}, note = {Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Monongahela is Parkinson's Ferry; Ft. Lafayette is Ft. Fayette.}, language = {English}, }