TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - pioneers
KW - traders
KW - Black Boys Rebellion
AU - P.J. [Pinkus Jacob] Wolfson
AB - A Hollywood adaptation of Neil H. Swanson’s <em>The First Rebel</em> (1937), a biographical novel of Colonel James Smith (John Wayne).  The script thins and dramatically changes the novel’s plot, beginning in 1759 when Jim Smith returns after the French and Indian War from Quebec to Pittsburgh's Allegheny Valley.
C1 - 1759-63
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Pitt
C4 - Historical; Biographical; Adventure; War; Western
CY - Alexandria, VA
LA - English
M3 - Screenplay
N1 - Based on a novel by Neil H. [Harmon] Swanson (1896-1983).
N2 - A Hollywood adaptation of Neil H. Swanson’s <em>The First Rebel</em> (1937), a biographical novel of Colonel James Smith (John Wayne).  The script thins and dramatically changes the novel’s plot, beginning in 1759 when Jim Smith returns after the French and Indian War from Quebec to Pittsburgh's Allegheny Valley.
PB - Alexander Street Press
PP - Alexandria, VA
PY - 1939
RN - P. J. Wolfson (1903-79) was born in New York to Russian Jewish immigrants. After failing at his first career, pharmacy, he found success writing pulp fiction about the Manhattan urban jungle of the Great Depression, after which Hollywood lured him to the West and screenwriting.
EP - 136 p.
TI - Allegheny Uprising
ER -