TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - French and Indian War
KW - Battle of the Monongahela
KW - George Washington (1732-99)
KW - Edward Braddock (1695-1755)
KW - romantic relationships
AU - George Lippard
AB - The melodramatic romance depicts Washington approaching Ft. Duquesne with the Braddock Expedition and rescuing Marion—a fair maiden who lives in the forest near the Monongahela River—from the unwanted advances of Michael “Red Wolf” Burke. Washington and Marion fall in love, but then he must rejoin his Virginia regiment. When after the battle Washington returns to fetch her, he finds Marion dead and scalped.
C1 - 1750s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Youghiogheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Ft. Pitt; N. Braddock; Braddock's Field
C4 - Biographical; Historical; Western; War; Romance
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N2 - The melodramatic romance depicts Washington approaching Ft. Duquesne with the Braddock Expedition and rescuing Marion—a fair maiden who lives in the forest near the Monongahela River—from the unwanted advances of Michael “Red Wolf” Burke. Washington and Marion fall in love, but then he must rejoin his Virginia regiment. When after the battle Washington returns to fetch her, he finds Marion dead and scalped.
PB - Stringer and Townsend
PP - New York
PY - 1850
RN - George Lippard (1822-54) was a Philadelphia attorney, social reformer, writer, and a friend of Edgar Allan Poe. He published historical fiction as well as Gothic novels.
EP - 188 p.
TI - Washington and His Men: A New Series of Legends of the Revolution
ER -