TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - French and Indian War
KW - Battle of Ft. Necessity
KW - Battle of the Monongahela
KW - Queen Alliquippa (c. 1670s/1700s-1754)
KW - George Washington (1732-99)
KW - Edward Braddock (1695-1755)
KW - Battle of Jumonville Glen
KW - Moravians
KW - Christopher Gist (1706-59)
KW - George Croghan (c. 1718-82)
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - Chief Cornstalk (c. 1720-77)
KW - Protestants
AU - Michael Kilian
AB - A novelized biography of George Washington’s three key years (1753-1755) in Western Pennsylvania, narrated by a fictional Captain “Tick” Morley, a ship owner and trader who spies on Washington for Benjamin Franklin. This novel gives special attention to the Battle of Jumonville Glen, Braddock’s Expedition, and the Battle of the Monongahela.
C1 - 1753-5
C3 - Beaver River; Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Youghiogheny River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Chartiers Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Lawrenceville; N. Braddock; Braddock’s Fiel
C4 - Historical; Biographical; War; Children’s; Young Adult; Western
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Lawrenceville is Shannopinstown; Harmony Twp. is Logstown.
N2 - A novelized biography of George Washington’s three key years (1753-1755) in Western Pennsylvania, narrated by a fictional Captain “Tick” Morley, a ship owner and trader who spies on Washington for Benjamin Franklin. This novel gives special attention to the Battle of Jumonville Glen, Braddock’s Expedition, and the Battle of the Monongahela.
PB - St. Martin's Press
PP - New York
PY - 1998
RN - Michael Kilian (1939-2005) was a journalist for the <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, a comic-strip writer for <em>Dick Tracey</em>, and the writer of 19 thrillers set during either the Cold War or the American Civil War.
EP - 353 p.
TI - Major Washington
ER -