Hello Drew,
I don't know whether it would exactly be what you are looking for,
but I have found the books written by Alan ECKERT to be very
interesting and illustrative of the settlers in Western PA and
environs. "The Frontiersman" was the first I read and found to be
exceedingly well documented with it taking longer sometimes to read
the endnotes than the actual text. The other absorbing books of his
I have enjoyed are "Wilderness Empire", "The Wilderness War",
"Gateway to Empire", and "The Conquerers", "That Dark and Bloody
River", and "The Life of Tecumseh". The books are factual and
descriptive but written as a novel. I think they are entertaining,
instructional, and absorbing.
For years I had been lending these books to people but always keep my
own copies in reserve because so many are not returned. Now I just
purchase them and give them away, usually from
Amazon.com. In a book
store Eckert's books are found in the Westerns section. After all,
much of Pennsylvania was about as far as the country went in the
early days.
Best wishes,
Jean Hudson Masco
On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Drew Blackwel<andrew46(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations on books that will tell me about
life in the
U.S. and it's territories from 1700-1850.