TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - traders
KW - missionaries
KW - trappers
KW - soldiers
AU - Robert [Bertrand] Witter
AB - An Indian medicine woman leaves her tribe to marry a Scandinavian fur trapper and to run a tavern near the Forks of the Ohio. “She is content to be the understanding wife of a handsome ladies’ man,” reads the dust jacket, “until the sheriff bans her from the territory. The details of Indian medical lore are interwoven with the story of the Indian woman meeting and marrying the white man and their escape from her tribe.”
C1 - 1750s
C3 - Allegheny County; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Lawrenceville; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Beaver County; Harmony Twp.
C4 - Historical; Romance; Western
CY - Baltimore
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Lawrenceville is Shannopin’s Town; Harmony Twp. is Logstown.
N2 - An Indian medicine woman leaves her tribe to marry a Scandinavian fur trapper and to run a tavern near the Forks of the Ohio. “She is content to be the understanding wife of a handsome ladies’ man,” reads the dust jacket, “until the sheriff bans her from the territory. The details of Indian medical lore are interwoven with the story of the Indian woman meeting and marrying the white man and their escape from her tribe.”
PB - PublishAmerica
PP - Baltimore
PY - 2002
RN - Robert Witter (1924-2011), born in Gettysburg, Adams County, was a World War II veteran and a graduate of Penn State and the Parsons School of Design. He had a long career designing museum displays for the Smithsonian.
EP - 102 p.
TI - Powwow Woman
ER -