The Surveyor and the Silversmith: Land Speculation on the Frontier of Western Pennsylvania

by C. Prentiss Orr

Book Overview

Neither the Leni Lenape nor the Iroquois called the

land their own; for thousands of years, it had been

inhabited by a mysterious people for whom they

had no name. And, yet, white men like Daniel Leet,

William Crawford and George Washington surveyed

dense forests with measuring chains, tomahawks

at the ready, to claim hundreds of thousands of acres

simply because they could, because it was all God's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BGKJ6B4P
• ISBN13: 9798986099507
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Explorditions LLC
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"