TY - SER KW - Native Americans KW - Roman Catholics KW - French and Indian War KW - Braddock Expedition KW - Battle of Ft. Necessity KW - Battle of the Monongahela KW - Queen Alliquippa (c. 1670s/1700s-1754) KW - Ohio Company KW - George Washington (1732-99) KW - Edward Braddock (1695-1755) KW - prophets KW - Shingas (fl. 1740-63) KW - Thomas Dunbar (unknown-1767) KW - pioneers KW - romantic relationships KW - immigrants KW - Irish Americans KW - priests KW - Protestants AU - Solomon Secondsight AB - 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. C1 - 1750s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Chartiers Creek; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Grant’s Hill; Ft. Duquesne; Ft. Pitt; Lawrenceville; N. Braddock; Braddock’s Field; Erie County; Waterford; Ft. Le Boeuf C4 - Historical; Biographical; Immigrant; Western; War CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Solomon Secondsight is a pseudonym of James McHenry
(1785-1845). Lawrenceville is referred to as Shannopin Town, as it was then known. N2 - 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. PB - E. Bliss & E. White PP - New York PY - 1823 RN - James McHenry (1785-1845), born in Ireland, was educated in Glasgow and Dublin and by 1817 practiced medicine in Philadelphia. In 1842 he was appointed U. S. counsel in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, a post he held until his death. EP - 521 p. TI - The Wilderness: or, The Youthful Days of Washington ER -