Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk

Biographies & Memoirs

Wallace, Paul A. W.

Historical

Wennawoods Publishing

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Loudon's Indian Narratives (Great Pennsylvania Frontier)

History

Loudon, Archibald

Americas

The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania, is the most complete and documented book on the history of the Indian wars on America s Eastern Frontier. Originally published in 1929 and revised in 1931, Indian Wars is based primarily on the Pennsylvania Archives and Colonial Records. With background chapters on Indian religion, character and the Indian tribes of Pennsylvania, Sipe discusses chapter by chapter the 40 years of Indian Wars from 1755 to 1795. Beginning with the French &amp;Indian War and the causes that led up to it, Sipe covers all Indian uprisings and tragedies, Pontiac s War, Lord Dunmore s War, and concludes with 7 chapters on the Indian influence on the Revolutionary War. With Pennsylvania as keystone of the colonies and gateway to the west, it is indeed appropriate that Sipe called the Indian Wars of the Eastern Frontier the Indian Wars of Pennsylvania. All of the major wars of this time period (1755-1795) had their roots in Pennsylvania history and most military leaders involved in those Indian Wars and a majority of their fighting men were from Pennsylvania. The real key to this work is the 156 page supplement that includes: A chronological listing of all major Indian events on the Eastern Frontier; details of Sullivan s campaign against the Indians; and the most detailed set of footnotes and references ever seen. Mr. Sipe s personal copy was used to reproduce this book, complete with his handwritten corrections in the margins of several pages. The Bible of the 18th century Eastern Frontier Indian Wars.

The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania

Politics & Social Sciences

C. Hale Sipe

Sociology

No state in the entire nation is richer in Indian names or in fact Indian history than Pennsylvania. Indian Villages is the only major book that traces back Indian names and places for their correct form, origin and history. These 290 pages are filled with the most incredible collection of information ever assembled on the Indian place names of Pennsylvania. In researching his book, Mr. Donehoo, not only went over every available source of printed material about place names in Pennsylvania, but also walked over nearly every Indian trail, from the Delaware to the Ohio, using every trader s journal and maps as his guide. Each Indian name comes complete with historical notes by the author, and as you read, you get a sense about each place; a feeling of walking with the author through each early village, along every river and stream and across the mountains of Pennsylvania back into time. Lists of authorities used is given with each name and a general bibliography follows at the conclusion of the work. Certainly, Heckewelder, Zeisberger, Post, Gist, Croghan, Weiser and other early explorers would be very proud.

A History of the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania

George P. Donehoo

Reference

While Surveying the West Branch of the Susquehanna, the Sinnemahoning and the Allegheny Rivers in 1790.

David Zeisberger's history of the northern American Indians

Zeisberger, David

a reprinting of the work first published in 1887.

Journal of Samuel Maclay,: While surveying the west branch of the Susquehanna, the Sinnemahoning and the Allegheny rivers, in 1790, published by John F. Meginness

Samuel Maclay

George Croghan and the Westward Movement 1741-1782

Albert T. Volwiler

The French-English Rivalry For Indian Loyalties During the French and Indian War Years 1748-1763It seems only once in a lifetime that a book comes along that really unlocks many of the mysteries of a subject you have been studying for as long as you can remember. Diplomacy and Indian Gifts is just such a book! From the beginning, I was always intrigued by the old Indian custom of giving and receiving gifts and how this practice was used both for and against them! During the course of the F & I War years, thousands of pounds sterling was expended by both the French and the British in their diplomatic competition to buy Indian friendship and loyalty through gift giving. Indian gifts and their givers indeed made diplomatic history. To say diplomacy and Indian gifts was a high stakes game would not do justice to everything that was really involved. It was a war for empire, but also was a war for profit, and the Indians were pawns to be bought by whatever means necessary to affect the outcome. These diplomatic missions along with this showering of gifts helped decide the war that inspired a melting pot of people to form a nation. The story makes fascinating reading and Dr. Jacob s book is the final authority. This history of Indian gifts and how it affected the outcome of the early history of our country was hitherto an unexplored area in the records of the Colonial westward movement and Dr. Jacobs spent 7 years in historically sleuthing through old manuscripts, journals and various other printed material in putting together this magnificent record of how the Indians were paid off and how the West was won. Describing the various gifts like vermilion war paint, liquor and trinkets, and even guns for which young warriors would tear the heart out of a trader , the author gives page after page of specific examples of how these coveted treasures were used to buy friendship and loyalty. This never before published book is an exciting, insightful and informative collection of information about the part Indian gifts played in changing the course of American history. Bibliography of over 90 published sources (books, manuscripts, journals, calendars, paper collections, transcripts) & with 1,000+ footnotes. Exceptional Reference Book. 208pp Hardback

Diplomacy and Indian gifts: Anglo-French rivalry along the Ohio and Northwest frontiers, 1748-1763

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The killing of 1,000 wild stags in Pennsylvania in 1912 established a high water mark for the noble sport in this State in recent years. Probably fifty thousand hunters, more or less skilled, participated in the chase, a veritable army of annihilation. So wrote Henry W. Shoemaker, at the beginning of his classic, Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns. Originally published in 1915, Mr. Shoemaker s unforgettable book witnessed the turning point of events in Pennsylvania s long deer management history. Deer were so scarce during the early 20th century that someone could spend a week hunting in the mountains of Pennsylvania and never see a deer, let alone come across many if any deer tracks. Deer habitat was poor and food was scarce. Beginning with the emergence of law enforcement protection, coupled with the introduction of new scientific game management techniques, the 20th century would usher in an era of renewed optimism and eventually lead to what was to become known as the modern period of recovery in Pennsylvania deer numbers. Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns is much more than just a book about the early whitetail years of Pennsylvania, it is also Shoemaker s attempt to introduce Pennsylvania hunters to the other antlered animals whose ancestors have come and gone in Penn s Woods. With over 50 great old hunting pictures in Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns, Shoemaker is a master at mixing the folklore, history, and heritage of deer hunting in PA while describing for his audience those quaint pictures of hunts from our past. Shoemaker s enjoyable walk across PA hunting frontier history and culture tells an exciting story. He is an artist with his pen as he paints descriptions of men, deer hunting, and places in time that have come and gone. But today as we enter the 21st century across this great state of Pennsylvania, deer habitat and deer hunting is changing. Annual deer harvest numbers have now passed the half-million mark and that army of fifty thousand hunters Shoemaker spoke of in 1912, continues yearly to hover near the million hunter mark. We have indeed come a long way in Pennsylvania deer hunting, but we have much more work to do before we sleep. Now as we focus on our future, a new edition of this book and Part II of Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns brings together noted experts in the fields of nutrition, deer science, and deer management to give us hope and direction on where to look for answers to help take our deer management into the 21st century. Part II of Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns is not meant to be a how-to book on deer management but was written to wet your appetite on the part you can play in making Pennsylvania deer hunting better. Ron Wenning, nutritionist from Bighorn Wildlife Products, gives us help on understanding whitetail nutrition and the science behind antler growth and development. Dr. Karl V. Miller, noted whitetail biologist, describes the important science of how deer communicate. Brian Murphy, Executive Director of QDMA, Quality Deer Management Association, describes the concept of quality deer management as it may apply to Pennsylvania, and where you can go for help on our deer management questions. This new edition gives us hope for the future and gives us a sense of the past with a hope for the future of deer hunting in Pennsylvania. Quite simply we call this new edition to the book 208PP PAPERBACK WITH JACK PALUH S ORIGINAL ARTWORK COLOR COVER AND NEW 30 PAGE EDITION TO OUR 2002 PA DEER.$19.95

Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns

Henry W. Shoemaker

An Original Monthly Publication Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to The Early Explorations and The Settlement and The Improvements of the Country Around The Head of The Ohio Edited by Neville B. Craig Esq. Originally published in 1846, and reprinted in 1876, in 2 volumes contain one of the most significant collections of documents that pertain to the expansion, settlement and Indian wars of the frontier that would lead to independence from Great Britain and the land that would become Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr. Craig was peculiarly fitted for such an undertaking. Born in a redoubt built by Colonel Bouquet in 1764, his life of more than three score and ten, was spent within a rifle-shot of the place of his birth. Familiar in his early years with many of the characters who appear upon these pages, in later life his antiquarian tastes led him to spend much of his time in searching and preserving everything relating to the early history of the country in and about the headwaters of the Ohio. These scare first hand accounts and primary material concerning the settlement of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, military campaigns (e.g. English vs French, English vs Indians, Indian Wars) represent a lifetime of work by Mr. Craig and by most historians is considered to be an unrivaled collection of Western Pennsylvania/Ohio Valley important original source material. The Olden Times was originally published as a monthly magazine in 1846-1847 with 24 numbers issued. These monthly publications resulted in enough material to be bound into two volumes, all together some eleven hundred pages, containing many documents, both rare and of great interest in some instances private journals of persons taking a prominent part in those early events. Volume 1 contains, among other articles about Aboriginal history, information and letters written by prominent people on the Delaware, Shawnee, Iroquois, and their Indian traditions and displacement of the Indians as their land is settled by the whites. Washington s Journal of his first Campaign in 1753, Stobo s Letters, Colonel Armstrong s Taking of Kittanning, Christian Posts, Two Journals of Missions to the Shawnees, Colonel Bouquet s Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, Journals of George Croghan, and Washington s Journal of a Tour to the Ohio in 1770 are but other chapters in Volume 1. One of the most interesting chapters in Volume 1, however, is the very simple telling of the manners and customs of our forefathers as they moved westward and settled the land. Their habits of diet, dress and housekeeping are explained in detail and are very revealing. Volume 1 also has an index. Volume 2 contains Ormby s Narratives of Campaigns of Colonel Forbes and Bouquet, History of Dunmore s War, History of Chief Logan s Speech, Lyon s Narrative of Captivity, and Colonel Conolly s Plot and Imprisionment. Translations of the celebrated and rare work upon Washington s Campaign Against the French Indians of the Ohio, printed by the French Government, entitled Memoire Precis des Faits, covering over 130 pages; Colonel Broadhead s Expedition, Arthur Lee s Journal of a Mission to the Indians in 1758, and Journal of General Butler for the same purpose, and Letters upon the Iroquois occupying more than 100 pages. The destruction of Hanna s Town, and the chapters on the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784, Regulations of Prices and Transactions at Ft. Pitt, and events leading up to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 are extremely informative. Volume 2 also has an index. These two volumes are an unrivaled collection of Western Pennsylvania/Ohio Valley important original source material. The intrinsic value and diversity of these collected works is priceless as many documents are unprocurable; being only available in private collections.

The Olden Times (Volume 1)

Nevile Craig

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