@book{79,
  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, Irish Americans, priests, Protestants},
  author = {Walter Scott Browne},
  title = {The Rose of the Wilderness: Or, Washington’s First Love},
  abstract = {<p>Follows an Irish family 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.</p>},
  year = {1901},
  pages = {456 p.},
  publisher = {A.C. Graw},
  address = {Camden, NJ},
  note = {<p>This novel is plagiarized from, but an abbreviated version of, Solomon Secondsight&rsquo;s <a href="/pittsburghnovel/content/wilderness-or-youthful-days-washington"><em>The Wilderness</em></a> (1823).</p>},
  language = {English},
}