The King's Orchard
| Year of Publication |
1963
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
467 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
The Macmillan Company
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
A novelized biography of James and Mary O'Hara, a founding family of Pittsburgh, who made a fortune by acquiring land and establishing the city's first industries. “Not only does this story span Pittsburgh's most thrilling period history—” says Kirkus Reviews, “the days of Fort Pitt, the raw beginnings of settlement, the Indian threat, the American War of Independence, the sweeping tide of war against the Indian tribes, the Whiskey Rebellion—but it includes the beginnings of the industries that have made Pittsburgh what it is, in the use of natural resources, the river, coal, and the indomitable spirit of the people.”
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| Notes |
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Mt. Washington is Coal Hill; Harmony Twp. is Legionville.
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| Author Biography |
The author was born Agnes Sligh (1888-1982) in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County to a Scottish immigrant and his Scottish-American wife. She attended the village school and in 1910 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana Normal School. She taught high school until 1918 when she married an Englishman, James Lyall Turnbull. The couple left Western Pennsylvania in 1922 for Maplewood, New Jersey, where Agnes lived for 60 years as a fiction writer. She is buried in New Alexandria.
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| Time |
1775-92
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