TY - SER
KW - Whiskey Rebellion
KW - Native Americans
KW - keelboats
KW - pioneers
KW - Conestoga wagons
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - ministers
KW - soldiers
KW - John Neville (1731-1803)
KW - immigrants
KW - Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
KW - Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
KW - John Scull (1765-1828)
KW - James O'Hara (1752-1819)
KW - Tories
KW - Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
KW - Monongahela rye
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - Modern Chivalry (1792)
KW - "Pittsburgh Gazette"
KW - Protestants
AU - Leland D. [Dewitt] Baldwin
AB - After a trip from New Orleans up the Mississippi and the Ohio, David Braddee, 19, pilots his foster father’s keelboat to a tough landing among the scattered cabins of Pittsburgh, where he stays and comes of age.  “The ‘delectable country’ is a dual symbol—the goal of David's journeyings into the wilderness, and of his striving toward that ‘delectable country of the soul’ which Bunyan so happily christened,” says <em>Western Pennsylvania Historical Review</em>.
C1 - 1790s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny Mountain; Kiskiminetas River; Beaver River; Chartiers Creek; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Youghiogheny River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Pitt; Ft. Fayette; Grant’
C4 - Historical; Coming-of-Age; Christian; Adventure; Western
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Monongahela is Parkinson's Ferry; Ft. Lafayette is Ft. Fayette.
N2 - After a trip from New Orleans up the Mississippi and the Ohio, David Braddee, 19, pilots his foster father’s keelboat to a tough landing among the scattered cabins of Pittsburgh, where he stays and comes of age.  “The ‘delectable country’ is a dual symbol—the goal of David's journeyings into the wilderness, and of his striving toward that ‘delectable country of the soul’ which Bunyan so happily christened,” says <em>Western Pennsylvania Historical Review</em>.
PB - Lee Furman, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1939
RN - Leland D. Baldwin (1897-1981) was born the son of a Methodist minister in Fairchance, Fayette County. In 1932, he earned his PhD in history at the University of Michigan and was hired as the librarian of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society. In 1936, when the University of Pittsburgh Press was established, he became its first editor and assistant director of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey, the first 10 books published by the new university press. He served as University Librarian for the University of Pittsburgh from 1940 until his enlistment in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, after which he became professor of American history at Pitt. He died in Santa Barbara, California.
EP - 715 p.
TI - The Delectable Country
ER -