With Rifle and Plow: Stories of the Western Pennsylvania Frontier
| Year of Publication |
1938
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| Publication Type |
Short Stories
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
212 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
University of Pittsburgh Press
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| City |
Pittsburgh
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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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