Traders, Travelers, and Tomahawks: True Stories about Settlers, Soldiers, Indians and Outlaws on the Pennsylvania Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 1620065177
- ISBN-13
- 9781620065174
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 104
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- John L. Moore
Description
As he traveled across the Pennsylvania Frontier in 1743, naturalist John Bartram didn't know what to expect when he accepted an invitation to spend the night in the cabin of a white man who traded goods for furs with the Indians. The cabin was near the native town of Shamokin (present-day Sunbury) along the Susquehanna River. "About midnight, the Indians came and called up him and his squaw," Bartram wrote later. "She sold the Indians rum. ... Being quickly intoxicated, men and women began first to sing and then dance round the fire."Bartram is one of many early Pennsylvanians that people this colorful non-fiction work. Others include Conrad Weiser, the Pennsylvania Colony's Indian agent; William Penn, the colony's visionary founder; Madame Montour, an interpreter who was the daughter of an Algonquin mother and French father; and Major General Edward Braddock, who led British troops against the French army in the Ohio River Valley.Author John L. Moore raises and answers many questions about who the frontiersmen and natives were and what they did. What was William Penn's colony like in its early days? How did the Lenni Lenape Indians living in Penn's colony obtain their food? What did they eat? How did they get along with Penn, and how did Penn get along with them? Why did Penn's sons recruit athletic young men to walk the boundary of land the Lenape weren't especially interested in selling?These true stories are set mainly in the valleys of the Delaware, Juniata, Lehigh, Ohio and Susquehanna rivers. They chronicle many aspects of a nearly forgotten past.
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