TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - George Washington (1732-99)
KW - pioneers
KW - Daniel Boone (1734-1820)
KW - German Americans
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - attorneys
KW - Presbyterians
KW - soldiers
KW - immigrants
KW - American Revolutionary War
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Tories
KW - Edward Hand (1744-1802)
KW - Samuel Semple (c. 1731-95)
KW - Archibald Lochry (1733-81)
KW - Scottish Americans
AU - Agnes Sligh Turnbull
AB - A pioneer romance about pains suffered by Scotch-Irish women in frontier settlements who offered up their men to the war. “The story of the Murrays and their neighbors,” says <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “of Violet the daughter, who suddenly realized that she was in love with her foster brother, Hugh, and of how Hugh felt he must play a man's part before he declared his love for her. Authentic pictures of frontier life, of the crudeness of the houses and the furnishings, of the superstitions, old wives tales, religious quirks, and of the essential faith in liberty and democracy.”
C1 - 1777-82
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Youghiogheny River; Kiskiminetas River; Loyalhanna Creek (tributary); French Creek (tributary); Beaver River (tributary)’; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Pitt; Ft. Duquesne;
C4 - Saga; Literary; Romance; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Greensburg is Newtown.
N2 - A pioneer romance about pains suffered by Scotch-Irish women in frontier settlements who offered up their men to the war. “The story of the Murrays and their neighbors,” says <em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, “of Violet the daughter, who suddenly realized that she was in love with her foster brother, Hugh, and of how Hugh felt he must play a man's part before he declared his love for her. Authentic pictures of frontier life, of the crudeness of the houses and the furnishings, of the superstitions, old wives tales, religious quirks, and of the essential faith in liberty and democracy.”
PB - The Macmillan Company
PP - New York
PY - 1942
RN - The author was born Agnes Sligh (1888-1982) in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County to a Scottish immigrant and his Scottish-American wife. She attended the village school and in 1910 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana Normal School. She taught high school until 1918 when she married an Englishman, James Lyall Turnbull. The couple left Western Pennsylvania in 1922 for Maplewood, New Jersey, where Agnes lived for 60 years as a fiction writer. She is buried in New Alexandria.
EP - 483 p.
TI - The Day Must Dawn
ER -