Research Catalog

Title

Fort Pitt : a frontier history / Brady J. Crytzer, foreword by Alan Gutchess.

Author

Crytzer, Brady.

Publication

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gutchess, Alan.

Description

190 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Traces the full history of Fort Pitt, from empire outpost to a bastion on the frontlines of a new republic." -- Back cover.

Subject

• 1600-1799
• HISTORY / Military / Pictorial
• HISTORY / Military / United States
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
• TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
• Fort Pitt (Pa.) > History
• Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography
• Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History > French and Indian War, 1754-1763 > Biography
• Pittsburgh Region (Pa.) > History > 18th century
• Fort Pitt (Penns.) > Histoire
• Pennsylvanie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Biographies
• Pittsburgh (Penns.) > Histoire > 1754-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans) > Biographies
• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania > Fort Pitt
• Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
• Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh Region

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue. Streets of a thousand names -- Hugh Mercer: "Capable of a tolerable defence" -- John Stanwix: "A perfect tranquility" -- Robert Monckton: "The brave, open-hearted, and liberal" -- Simeon Ecuyer: "Every one works, and I do not sleep" -- Henry Bouquet: Fort Pitt and the Ohio insurgency -- Lord Dunmore: Pittsburgh in the old dominion -- Daniel Brodhead: Fort Pitt and the American revolution -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. The Hanna's town resolves.

ISBN

• 9781540206343
• 1540206343
• 9781609494117
• 1609494113

LCCN

2012001032

OCLC

• ocn773811609
• 773811609
• SCSB-9459812

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library