With Rifle and Plow: Stories of the Western Pennsylvania Frontier

Year of Publication
1938
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
212 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: John E. [Ernest Thorington] Wright
Author: Elisabeth M. [Mellon] Sellars
Author: Jeanette C. [Campbell] Shirk
Tertiary Author: Alexander [Sharpe] Ross
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
City
Pittsburgh
Genre
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Abstract
Sixteen historical short stories for kids.
Notes
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Lawrenceville is Shannopin’s Town; Harmony Twp. is Logstown; University of Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh Academy.
Author Biography

John E. [Ernest Thorington] Wright (1894-unknown) was an author. Elisabeth M. [Mellon] Sellars (1903-73), niece of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, edited Birds of Western Pennsylvania (1940). Jeanette C. [Campbell] Shirk (1898-1980) was an artist and author. Alexander [Sharpe] Ross (1908-90), born in Dunfermline, Scotland and educated at Carnegie Technical Institute (now Carnegie Mellon University), was a painter and illustrator.

Time
1740s-90s
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