The First Rebel: Being a Lost Chapter of Our History and a True Narrative of America's First Uprising against English Military Authority and an Account of the First Fighting between Armed Colonists and British Regulars together with a Biography of Colonel James Smith Who was Captured by Savages, Ran the Gauntlet, Saw the Prisoners of the Braddock Massacre Burned at the Stake, Lived Five Years as an Indian, Escaped, Served through Three Wilderness Campaigns, and Led the Pennsylvania Rebellion in Which Backwoodsmen Fought the Famous Black Watch, Besieged Fort Pitt, Captured Its Commander and Part of Its Garrison, and in the Year 1765 Forced Its Evacuation Ten Years before Lexington
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1937
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
393 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Neil H. Swanson |
| Publisher |
Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
A biographical novel of Colonel James Smith (1737-1814) and sequel to The Judas Tree (1933). Says a starred review in Kirkus, “Grand reading . . . like an absorbing adventure yarn, incredibly full of the 'spirit of '76' ' without being in the least degree flag waving. Young Smith was in on the first shot against Western Pennsylvania frontiersmen in rebellion against the Highlanders, French, Indians, British, friend or foe . . . so long as frontier rights were accepted.”
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| Notes |
Bedford is referred to as Raystown, as it was then known.
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| Author Biography |
Neil Swanson (1896-1983), born in Minnesota, served as company commander in the U.S. Infantry in World War I. He then became a newspaper city editor in Minneapolis. From 1941 to 1954 he was the Baltimore Sun Executive Editor. Three of his novels became bestsellers and two were adapted into Hollywood films. He died in Baltimore.
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1755-69
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