Four men travel into the Ohio country when it was contested by Britain, France and the Native nations. Conrad Weiser carries a Pennsylvania embassy to the western Indians in 1748, the trader George Croghan records councils and journeys through the 1750s and 1760s, and Captain Thomas Morris narrowly survives a mission up the Maumee in 1764, all annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
First-hand records of the frontier that sparked the French and Indian War, for readers of early American history. Download the free EPUB.