TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - French and Indian War
KW - Battle of Ft. Necessity
KW - Tanacharison (Half-King) (c. 1700-64)
KW - German Americans
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - ministers
KW - missionaries
KW - Guyasuta (c. 1725-c. 1794)
KW - George Croghan (c. 1718-82)
KW - fur trade
KW - Conrad Weiser (1696-1760)
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - Robert H. Fowler
AB - Jason McGee leaves the Susquehanna River Valley on a quest to Western Pennsylvania to find a brother captured by Indians in a raid that killed their parents. Along the way two sidekicks—a fur trader and a Quaker missionary—join Jason over the Allegheny Mountains to the Forks of the Ohio.
C1 - 1743-54
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River, Monongahela River, Ohio River; French Creek; Allegheny County; Turtle Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Ft. Pitt; Lawrenceville; N. Braddock; Braddock’s Field; Armstrong County; Kittanning; Beaver
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Historical; War; Western; Captivity; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Lawrenceville is Shannopin Town; Harmony Twp. is Logstown; Hollidaysburg is Frankstown.
N2 - Jason McGee leaves the Susquehanna River Valley on a quest to Western Pennsylvania to find a brother captured by Indians in a raid that killed their parents. Along the way two sidekicks—a fur trader and a Quaker missionary—join Jason over the Allegheny Mountains to the Forks of the Ohio.
PB - Harper & Row, Publishers
PP - New York
PY - 1979
RN - Robert Fowler (1926-2002) was a journalist and the founder of Historical Times, Inc., a magazine publishing group.
EP - 322 p.
TI - Jason McGee
ER -