Crossroads: Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania 1720-1829

by John W. Harpster

Overview

Crossroads is a collection of thirty-seven colorful and perceptive writings left by early travelers and settlers who ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains. Traders, surveyors, soldiers, preachers, and immigrants, some of them well known and some obscure, tell of the loneliness, terror, and beauty of the frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822960881
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	10/15/1960
Series:	The Library of Western Pennsylvania History
Edition description:	1
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	708,386
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John W. Harpster was curator of the museum (1963-1965) of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and Research Fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey, 1933-1935. 

Editorial Reviews

Reading Crossroads is like meeting a score of travelers returned from strange lands and listening while each tells his own story of his adventures. it is a kind of American Cantebury Tales, and the tales are true.”
—Neil H. Swanson

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