The White Rocks: or The Robbers' Den. A Tragedy of the Mountains
| Title | The White Rocks: or The Robbers' Den. A Tragedy of the Mountains |
| Year of Publication | 1865 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 390 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Hill, A. F. [Ashbel Fairchild] |
| Publisher | John E. Potter |
| City | Philadelphia |
| Keywords | domestic abuse; flatboats; murder |
| Abstract | Follows the legend of Polly Williams, who in 1810 was thrown to her death at the White Rocks in Georges Twp. by her lover Philip, who hid in an outlaws’ cave in a hill above the Monongahela River. |
| Author Biography | A. F. Hill (1842-76), born near the Monongahela River in German Twp., Fayette County, served in the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War and lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam. After the war, he wrote professionally for newspapers in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Uniontown, Fayette County. He also wrote poetry and several books, of which the best known is a black comedy about his post-traumatic stress: John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch, or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War (1869). Hill married in San Francisco and returned with his wife to Uniontown, where he died November 7, 1876. He is buried at the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County. |
| Time | 1810s |
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