TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - French and Indian War
KW - Braddock Expedition
KW - Forbes Expedition
KW - Battle of Ft. Necessity
KW - Ohio Company
KW - George Washington (1732-99)
KW - Edward Braddock (1695-1755)
KW - Battle of Jumonville Glen
KW - Guyasuta (c. 1725-c. 1794)
KW - Christopher Gist (1706-59)
KW - Scottish Americans
AU - John S. Ritenour
AB - A novelized biography French and Indian War veteran Tom Fossit, who long claimed to have personally murdered General Braddock during the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755.
C1 - 1753-8
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Connoquenessing Creek (tributary); Chartiers Creek (tributary); Jacobs Creek (tributary); Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Youghiogheny River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duques
C4 - Historical; Biographical; War
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Lawrenceville is Shannopin’s Town; Harmony Twp. is Logstown; Redstone Old Ft. is Ft. Burd.
N2 - A novelized biography French and Indian War veteran Tom Fossit, who long claimed to have personally murdered General Braddock during the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755.
PB - J. R. Weldin Company
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 1926
RN - John S. Ritenour (1850-1925) was a prominent Pittsburgh journalist, editor, and a founder of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. He is buried in Uniontown, Fayette County.
EP - 269 p.
TI - Old Tom Fossit: A True Narrative Concerning a Thrilling Epoch of Early Colonial Days
ER -