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The Surveyor and the Silversmith: Land Speculation on the Frontier of Western Pennsylvania - Couverture souple

Orr, C. Prentiss

 
9798986099507: The Surveyor and the Silversmith: Land Speculation on the Frontier of Western Pennsylvania
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ISBN 13 : 9798986099507
Editeur : Explorditions, LLC, 2022

Synopsis

Neither the Leni Lenape nor the Iroquois called the land their own; for thousands of years, it had been inhabited by a mysterious people for whom they had no name. And, yet, white men like Daniel Leet, William Crawford and George Washington surveyed dense forests with measuring chains, tomahawks at the ready, to claim hundreds of thousands of acres simply because they could, because it was all God’s bounty, because, like silver or gold, it would provide wealth far greater than any civilization had known before. It was an ideal few would realize. But then, one day, two families laid roots in the wilds of western Pennsylvania...

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À propos de l'auteur

Prentiss is the principal author and editor of the popular illustrated ref-erence book, Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred: 500 of the More Famous Peo-ple Who Have Called Pittsburgh Home, chosen by the Senator John Heinz History Center as the official publication to celebrate Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. He has written dozens of Pittsburgh biographies as editor and publisher of Allegheny Cemetery's Heritage newsletter, and pub-lished two local history books with the late C. Hax McCullough. Prentiss also was an editor of The Power of Pittsburgh, published by Towery Books as the centerpiece of a larger economic development campaign he directed for the Allegheny Conference on Community De-velopment. A former theatre marketing professional and advertising cre-ative director for more than 30 years, in 2005, Prentiss also co-founded Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries, the first vodka distillery in Pennsylvania and makers of Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka. The Surveyor and The Silversmith is his first deep dive into writing an American family's narrative history. He can be reached at explordi-tions.com.

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Éditeur
Explorditions, LLC
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798986099507
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
471
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