Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750-1865
by Leland D. Baldwin
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Originally published in 1937, [t]hisstandard history of Pittsburgh tells the city's story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion. With wonderful line illustrations by Ward Howe.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750-1865
- Original publication date
- 1937
- Important places
- Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Important events
- French and Indian War
- First words
- Had an observer been able to station himself with a spyglass on the hill now known as Mount Washington on a bleak day in late November, 1753, he would have been rewarded by a panoramic view of the region about the Forks of th... (show all)e Ohio that was soon to engross the attention of the world.
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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