Synopses & Reviews
Review
“Reading
Crossroads is like meeting a score of travelers returned from strange lands and listening while each tells his own story of his adventures. it is a kind of American
Cantebury Tales, and the tales are true.”
—Neil H. Swanson
Synopsis
Crossroads is a collection of thirty-seven colorful and perceptive writings left by early travelers and settlers who ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains. Traders, surveyors, soldiers, preachers, and immigrants, some of them well known and some obscure, tell of the loneliness, terror, and beauty of the frontier.
About the Author
John W. Harpster was curator of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.