The Forest and the Fort

Year of Publication
1943
Publication Type
Novel
Series Title
Sylvania trilogy, 1/3
Number of Pages or Episodes
344 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Hervey Allen
Tertiary Author: Andrew Wyeth
Publisher
Farrar & Rinehart
City
New York
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Abstract
Follows Salatheil Albine, a white man who was captured as a boy in a Shawnee raid and raised as a chief’s son. After relearning English, Albine identifies with colonists and escapes east to Ft. Pitt.
Notes
Harmony Twp. is referred to as Logstown, as it was then known.
Author Biography

Hervey Allen (1889-1949), born in Pittsburgh, is best known for his 1933 national bestseller Anthony Adverse and especially its Warner Brothers film, which won four Academy Awards in 1936. Allen's father was the inventor of an automated blast furnace stoker. Allen enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1909, but because of a sports injury, left Annapolis and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1915. He served in combat during World War I. His poetry collection, Wampum and Old Gold, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 1921. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), born in Chadds Ford Twp., Delaware County, was a visual artist. In 2007, President George W. Bush presented Wyeth with the National Medal of Arts.

Time
1760-3
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