Wilderness Boy
 First edition | |
| Author | Margery Evernden |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Putnam |
| Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 218 pp |
| OCLC | 5956478 |
Wilderness Boy is an historical, young adult novel by American writer Margery Evernden.
Set in 1794 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Jonathon Garrett, who while on an errand for his frontier doctor uncle, is accosted by local farmers and enlisted to join them in raising a Liberty Pole. The events of the Whiskey Rebellion soon unfold.[1]
See also
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Other novels that employ events of the Whiskey Rebellion:
- The Latimers (1898)
- The Delectable Country (1939)
- The Whiskey Rebels (2008)
References
[edit]- ↑ Evernden, Margery (2001). Wilderness Boy. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5754-6.
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