UID:
edoccha_9960101951902883
Format:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-7127-5
Series Statement:
Pitt paperback Pittsburgh: the story of a city, 1750-1865
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue Lewis Evans, His Map -- I. Virginia Takes a Hand in the West -- II. How Are the Mighty Fallen! -- III. Robbers' Roost -- IV. The Head of Iron -- V. Britannia Rules the Ohio -- VI. Pioneer Village in War and Peace -- VII. "Intestin Broyls -- VIII. Revolt in the West -- IX. Between Revolts -- X. Tom the Tinker Comes to Town -- XI. The Gateway to the West -- XII. Genesis of an Industrial Empire -- XIII. Life under the Poplars -- XIV. Clapboard Democracy -- XV. From Turnpike to Railroad -- XVI. Civic Pittsburgh, 1816-1860 -- XVII. "The Birmingham of America -- XVIII. The Emergence of a Metropolis -- XIX. Moral and Cultural Advancement -- XX. High and Low Life -- XXI. National Politics on a Local Scale -- XXII. Prelude to Strife -- XXIII. The Sinews of War -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-5216-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-98108-5
Language:
English
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