TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - flatboats
KW - Conestoga wagons
KW - German Americans
KW - John Scull (1765-1828)
KW - Stephen Bayard (1744-1815)
KW - kidnappings
AU - Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
AB - The Burd family leaves its eastern Pennsylvania farm to seek cheap land at Losantiville (now Cincinnati). Pittsburgh chapters depict how pioneers transferred their belongings to flatboats. The Burds also meet Mary Moore, a Pittsburgh girl who had been an Indian captive.
C1 - 1789
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Elizabeth; Blair County
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Western; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Illustrations, including the Pittsburgh ones, are by Ninon MacKnight. 
N2 - The Burd family leaves its eastern Pennsylvania farm to seek cheap land at Losantiville (now Cincinnati). Pittsburgh chapters depict how pioneers transferred their belongings to flatboats. The Burds also meet Mary Moore, a Pittsburgh girl who had been an Indian captive.
PB - Thomas Y. Crowell Company
PP - New York
PY - 1938
RN - Enid La Monte Meadowcroft (1898-1966), born in New York, taught elementary school, wrote radio scripts, and edited children's books for Grosset. She published more than 25 historical novels for kids.
EP - 170 p.
TI - By Wagon and Flatboat
ER -