Into the American Woods Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier

Name: Into the American Woods Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier
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ISBN: 9780393319767

ISBN-10: 0393319768

ISBN-13: 9780393319767

Edition: 2000

Authors: James H. Merrell

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.83" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.232

James H. Merrell is Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. He is author and editor of numerous books, including his second Bancroft Prize-winner (and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize),Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier.



List of Figures


List of Maps


Chronology


Introduction: "I Have a Large Intriestt in ye Woods"


Prologue: The Killing of Jack Armstrong, 1744



"Fitt and Proper Persons to Goe Between": Paths to the Woods



Finding Friends: Woodslore, 1699-1723



"That Rond between Us and You": Passages through the Woods



The Lessons of Brinksmanship: Woodslore, 1728 1743



"A Good Correspondance": Conversations



In the Woods: Woodslore, 1755 1758



"A Sort of Confusion": Treaties


Epilogue: The Killing of Young Seneca George, 1769


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Notes


Index